The ancient Chinese records tell of a "Place of Ten Suns," where "Ten Suns rose and shone together" (see Appendix, note 1). Seven Suns were also seen shining together in the sky! and at night (if indeed we can call it "night") as many as seven moons! (What a haunt for lovers and poets!) Five Suns were also beheld (see note 2). What Liars those Chinese writers are! Very good; but why not denounce all our own Arctic navigators as a pack of Liars? They all tell about more Suns than one! A picture o

The ancient Mexicans likened North America to a Tree—a stupendous Mulberry Tree —"planted in the land known to us today as South America" (n. 5). The Chinese geographers or mythologists teach that at a distance of 30,000 le (10,000 miles) to the east there is a land 10,000 le (over 3,000) miles in width. Now the land referred to must be North America, for, 10,000 miles east from southern China brings us to California; and we further find that North America, now reached, is 10,000 le , or over 3,

According to the translation, a "Great Canyon" is to be seen in the "Great Eastern Waste" "Beyond the Eastern Sea." And this Great Canyon is placed in connection with the "Sun and Moon shan ",—which possesses the Mulberry's Branches and exhibit of Suns already glanced at (note 12.) We read that a stream flows through this canyon, "producing a charming gulf." We are further informed that "the water accumulates and so forms a gulf." A river flowing through the "Great Canyon," swells or widens out,

Knowing quite well as we do, that our mighty river possesses a very substantial bottom composed of step-like ledges of rock, we learn with surprise that it is said to flow through a section described as bottomless ! Is not such a statement or assertion absurd? But what did the ancient writer mean? What could he have meant? The translation states that, according to a poem, the Tsang-shan-wu , "in the east there is a stream flowing in a bottomless ravine. It is supposed to be this Canyon"—the "Gre

It is absurd to imagine for a moment that a sucking infant could own, or could be really supposed to own, a lute . The Chinese text does not say that the musical instrument is "his." And yet, curiously enough, it does declare that the baby-prince left or abandoned ( k'i ) a Lute or Lyre in the Canyon. Why should such a matter be mentioned? Supposing that a fiddle was left behind, or a drum, or a rattle, why should the trivial fact be gravely recorded? If a Lute was left in the mighty chasm, its

It will be noticed that the 13th term in our list is hueh , which stands for cave habitation. Are such to be seen in our Canyon? Numerous tung (see 12th term,) in the shape of caves or holes are undoubtedly there, but in addition the old account notices hueh . Have such been found? One explorer says: "Even more remarkable than the stupendous walls which confine the Colorado river, are the ruined cave habitations which are to be seen along the lofty and inaccessible ledges, in which a vanished ra

It may further be remarked that the Chinese paragraph which immediately follows the account of our Canyon, mentions a place called "Pi-mo." This is its pronunciation in Canton, but in Shanghai, where mo is accorded the sound of mu (see Williams' dict. p. 1154 and p. 1186, column 6) Pi-mo would be called Pi-mu . Now, this Pi-mo or Pi-mu is said (see existing translation) to be situated in the "south-east corner of the desert beyond the eastern sea. Proceeding eastward until the "Eastern Sea," whi

But if the Mu-te (or Te-Mu ,) builder or ruler of fortresses in the region of Pimo and the Grand Canyon, was identical with our Pimo Mu-te , he should be referred to as semi-divine, in the Chinese record. And so he actually is. Even here the evidence does not fail. But conception of the little sun-child did not occur on the well watched or guarded hilltop at Pimo. It was in a green wilderness noted for its hay or grass and butchering of beasts, that a phantasm approached the female—and so on. Fo

(Note 1) see Mr. Vining's "An Inglorious Columbus," p. 659. (2) Jin-Chin Ngan's comment in 14th Book of the Shan Hai King. (3) Kane's work. (4) Van Troil's "Iceland," 1, 643: Headley's "Island of Fire," p. 100. (5) Dr. Le Plongeon's "Queen Moo," xl, xlii, 175. (6) Vining, 182, 659, 666. (7) Vining; 182. (8) Vining, 659. (9) Vining, 659. (10) see index for essays collected by Mr. Vining. (11) see Chinese version of Shan Hai King, with Jin-chin-ngan's notes, (the latter being omitted in Mr. V.'s t