NATIVE RACES
of the
PACIFIC STATES
showing the location of
THE CIVILIZED NATIONS

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THE NATIVE RACES
OF THE
PACIFIC STATES.

PRIMITIVE HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.
ON THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICANS.

Spirit of Inquiry in the Middle Ages—Unity of Origin—Flood Myths—Aboriginal Traditions of Origin—Culture-Heroes—China—Japan—Hindostan—Tartary—The Egyptian Theory—The Phœnicians—Votan's Travels—The Carthaginians—The Hebrew Theory—The Mormon Story—The Visits of the Scandinavians—Celtic Origin—The Welsh—Scotch—Irish—The Greeks and Romans—The Story of Atlantis—the Autochthonic Theory.