westward, a circumstance that speaks volumes for their origin, and which finds an interesting correspondence, not only in the Samoan Falealupo, but among the Marquesans. These, from time immemorial, but certainly reaching to a date within historic record, fitted out expeditions, and ventured on long voyages in search of the Elysium, which the tradition of their ancestors reported lay in a land toward the setting sun.

Again, we find a correspondence in the Aztec plan of making fire. Philo ascribes to the Phoenicians the discovery of the means of producing fire by the friction of two pieces of dry wood, Phos, Phur and Phlox-a por

But why attempt to continue this argument? I have in my possession still some twenty points of striking similarity between the Aztecs and the Phoenicians, and most of these are of a nature that removes them out of the sphere of chance. But I forbear, for there has surely been enough said to convince the most skeptical as to the connection between the Phoenician and the Aztec.

In conclusion I quote some short paragraphs from the "Encyclopedia Britannica's" article on "America" that seem so pertinent to the whole line of this research, as to make a suitable setting to all that has preceded.

"Votan, it seems, came from a foreign land, and found the whole country, from Darien to California, occupied by a barbarous people. Votan and his followers arrived in large ships, and wore long, flowing garments. According to one document by Ordonez this event is laid a thousand years before Christ

It is desirable to notice that this date corresponds exactly with the dates given in the Bible narrative of the historic voyages of Hiram and Solomon, and the building of the temple, which was about 1000 B. C. "This journey to America from their native country was a long and painful one and indicates that seas and lands intervened between them. The tradition reports it to be in the far East, and that the first comers filled seven ships."

Votan returned four or more times to his native country, and on the first occasion visited, according to Ordonez, a great city wherein a magnificent temple was in course of erection and which he supposed was Jerusalem. He also visited" the dwellings of the thirteen serpents," which undoubtedly refers to the temple in Benares, one of the most ancient cities on the face of the globe, and the religious center of India for centuries before the Christian era, being the birthplace of Hindoo mythology. Here the God incarnate in the serpent was worshiped.

The Rev. Mr. Sherring, in his "Sacred City of the Hindoos" (1868) says:

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"Twenty-five centuries ago, least, it was famous, when Babylon was struggling with Nineveh for supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persia, or Cyrus had added luster to the Persian monarchy, or Nebuchadnezzar had captured Jerusalem, and the inhabitants had been carried into captivity, she had already risen to greatness, if not to glory. Nay, she may have heard of the Vol. III-4

and is emphasized, if a little attention be given to the Aztec Molloch, where the drapery of the image will be found. to be serpentine in form, and bearing the symbolic four hands of the goddess Kali, the wife of Shira, to whom the "Monkey temple," at Benares was erected, and at whose shrine daily sacrifices of human victims were offered, up to a comparatively recent date, when the English Government interfered.

"Votan also visited the ruins of an old building which had been erected by men for the purpose of reaching heaven. The people who lived in its vicinity told him it was the place where God had given to each family its particular language."

style are, the substructures in Mayapam."

The native traditions held that Quetzalcoatl traversed the peninsula, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and on reaching the last ocean, sent back his companions to tell the Cholulans that in a future age his brothers, white men and bearded like himself, would land there from the sea, where the sun rises, and come to rule the country."

To this I append a note of the gold and silver yield of Mexico, in support of the contention that this was the location referred to in Scripture.

Second. We find that the details of this art are not a distinct type but composite, and the product of a variety of sources.

Third. We segregate this composite art, and reduce it to its original sources.

Fourth. We determine the nation, and the condition under which the amalgamation took place.

Fifth. We show that they were the only people capable of making this journey and this amalgamation. Sixth. We know that they made such journeys.

Seventh. We show a motive for these journeys.

Eighth. We trace the course they pursued.

Ninth. We determine from historic records the date at which the journey took place.

Tenth. And show that the religious beliefs of both were identical, and consequently conclude that in consequence of this and the other matters referred to, the Aztec was the product of Phoenician adventure and civilization.