[783] A paper by H. Rink in the Geografisk Tidskrift (viii. 139) entitled “Ostgrönländerne i deres Forhold till Vestgrönländerne og de övrige Eskimostammer,” is accompanied by drafts of the map of G. Tholacius, 1606, and of Th. Thorlacius, 1668-69,—the latter placing East Bygd on the east coast near the south end. K. J. V. Steenstrup, on Osterbygden in Geog. Tidskrift, viii. 123, gives facsimiles of maps of Jovis Carolus in 1634; of Hendrick Doncker in 1669. Sketches of maps by Johannes Meyer in 1652, and by Hendrick Doncker in 1666, are also given in the Geografisk Tidskrift, viii. (1885), pl. 5.
[784] Voyages des Pais Septentrionaux,—a very popular book.
[785] Chips from a German Workshop, i. 327.
[786] Archæological Tour, p. 202.
[787] The earliest fixed date for the founding of Tenochtitlan (Mexico city) is 1325. Brasseur tells us that Carlos de Sigüenza y Gongora made the first chronological table of ancient Mexican dates, which was used by Boturini, and was improved by Leon y Gama,—the same which Bustamante has inserted in his edition of Gomara. Gallatin (Amer. Ethnol. Soc. Trans., i.) gave a composite table of events by dates before the Conquest, which is followed in Brantz Mayer’s Mexico as it was, i. 97. Ed. Madier de Montjau, in his Chronologie hiéroglyphico-phonétique des Rois Astéques de 1352 à 1522, takes issue with Ramirez on some points.
[788] Bancroft (v. 199) gives references to those writers who have discussed this question of giants. Bandelier’s references are more in detail (Arch. Tour, p. 201). Short (p. 233) borrows largely the list in Bancroft. The enumeration includes nearly all the old writers. Acosta finds confirmation in bones of incredible largeness, often found in his day, and then supposed to be human. Modern zoölogists say they were those of the Mastodon. Howarth, Mammoth and the Flood, 297.
[789] See Native Races, ii. 117; v. 24, 27.
[790] Sometimes it is said they came from the Antilles, or beyond, easterly, and that an off-shoot of the same people appeared to the early French, explorers as the Natchez Indians. We have, of course, offered to us a choice of theories in the belief that the Maya civilization came from the westward by the island route from Asia. This misty history is nothing without alternatives, and there are a plenty of writers who dogmatize about them.
[791] Constituciones diocesanas del obispado de Chiappas (Rome, 1702).
[792] Nat. Races, v. 160.