The Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld of Montanus (Amsterdam, 1671) made the story more familiar. It necessarily entered into the discussions of the learned men who, in the seventeenth century, were busied with the question of the origin of the Americans, as in De Laet’s Notæ ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii (Paris, 1643), who is inclined to believe the story, as is Hornius in his De Originibus Americaniis (1652).
[699] Cf. Catlin’s No. Amer. Indians, i. 207; ii. 259, 262.
[700] Gentleman’s Magazine. It is reprinted in H. H. Bancroft’s Native Races, v. 119, and in Baldwin’s Anc. America, 286. Cf. John Paul Marana, Letters writ by a Turkish Spy, 1691, and later. The story had been told in The British Sailors’ Directory in 1739 (Carter-Brown, iii. 599).
[701] Warden’s Recherches, p. 157; Amos Stoddard’s Sketches of Louisiana (Philad., 1812), ch. 17, and Philad. Med. and Physical Journal, 1805; with views pro and con by Harry Toulmin and B. S. Barton.
[702] The book was reprinted by Sabin, N. Y., 1865, with an introduction by Horatio Gates Jones.
[703] An inquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog (Lond., 1791), and Further Observations ... containing the account given by General Bowles, the Creek or Cherokee Indian, lately in London, and by several others, of a Welsh tribe of Indians now living in the western parts of North America (Lond., 1792,—Field’s Ind. Bibliog., nos. 1664-65). Carey’s American Museum (April, May, 1792), xi. 152, etc., gave extracts from Williams.
[704] The Welsh Indians, or a collection of papers respecting a people whose ancestors emigrated from Wales to America with Prince Madoc, and who are now said to inhabit a beautiful country on the west side of the Mississippi (London, 1797). He finds these conditions in the Padoucas. Goodson, Straits of Anian (Portsmouth, 1793), p. 71, makes Padoucahs out of “Madogwys”!
[705] Chambers’ Journal, vi. 411, mentioning the Asguaws.
[706] Letter on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the No. Amer. Indians (N. Y., 1842).
[707] He convinced, for instance, Fontaine in his How the World was Peopled, p. 142.