Note 568 — Chapter II

A belief in the Asiatic connection has taken some curious forms. Montesinos in his Memorias Peruanas held Peru to be the Ophir of Solomon. Cf. Gotfriedus Wegner’s De Navigationis Solomonæis (Frankfort, 1689). Horn held Hayti to be Ophir, and he indulges in some fantastic evidences to show that the Iroquois, i. e. Yrcas, were Turks! Cf. Onffroy de Thoron in Le Globe, 1869. C. Wiener in his L’Empire des Incas (ch. 2, 4) finds traces of Buddhism, and so does Hyde Clarke in his Khita-Peruvian Epoch (1877). Lopez has written on Les Races Aryennes de Pérou (1871). Cf. Robert Ellis, Peruvia Scythica. The Quicha Language of Peru, its derivation from Central Asia with the American languages in general (London, 1875). Grotius held that the Peruvians were of Chinese stock. Charles Pickering’s ethnological map gives a Malay origin to the islands of the Gulf of Mexico and a part of the Pacific coast, the rest being Mongolian.