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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
nd the signs on the zodiac for the month in Thibet. The American nation had no zodiac, and could not, therefore, for the names of its days, have borrowed from Central Asia the symbols that marked the path of the sun through the year. Nor had the Mexicans either weeks or lunar months; but, after the manner of barbarous nations, tut is common to the American and the Asiatic; and there is to each very nearly the same ob-!iquity of the face. Between the Mongolian of Southern Asia and of Northern Asia there is a greater differ Chap. XXII.} ence than between the Mongolian Tatar and the North American. The Iroquois is more unlike the Peruvian than he is unliOby, he saw but one race. He that describes the Tungusians of Asia seems also Mithridates, III. 343. to describe the North American. That the Tschukchi North-Eastern Asia and the Esquimaux of America are of the same origin, is proved by the affinity of their languages,—thus establishing a connection between the continents pre