Chapter Ii. Identity Of The Tartars And North : p. 7 CHAPTER II. IDENTITY OF THE TARTARS AND NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS; OR, THE ROAD TO AMERICA, AND THE PEOPLE IN IT. THE Tunguse, Mongolians, and a great part of the Turkish race, formed originally, according to all external organic tokens, as well as the elements of their languages, but one people...
Chapter X. Affinities Of American And Asiatic : p. 97 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES, WITH THEIR RELATIONS TO THE OLD WORLD. THE DAKOTA LANGUAGE AND THE URAL-ALTAIC TONGUES-THE MOUND-BUILDERS--IMAGES OF BUDDHA. p. 99 CHAPTER X. AFFINITIES OF AMERICAN AND ASIATIC LANGUAGES. A VAST amount of research and ingenuity has been employed in establishing...
Chapter Ix. Travels Of Other Buddhist Priests : p. 86 CHAPTER IX. TRAVELS OF OTHER BUDDHIST PRIESTS (FROM THE FOURTH TO THE EIGHTH CENTURY). PERHAPS the strongest link in the chain of circumstantial evidence which can be adduced to prove that Hoei-shin and others penetrated to California and Mexico, is one which has been almost neglected by...
Chapter Xi. The Mound Builders And Mexicans : p. 110 CHAPTER XI. THE MOUND-BUILDERS AND MEXICANS. THERE is as yet great confusion in our knowledge if the different races of ancient America. For, admitting that the Sioux language, or any North American Indian language, presents traces of Asiatic derivation, this would simply prove th...
Chapter Vi. Fusang And Peru : p. 47 REMARKS ON THE TEXT OF PROFESSOR NEUMANN. p. 49 CHAPTER VI. FUSANG AND PERU. SINCE the foregoing chapters were written, the author--my old friend and teacher--has passed away, and the prophecy with which his work ended has been singularly fulfilled. China is now thoroughly opened, and Jap...
Chapter Iv. Remarks On The Report Of Hoei Shin : p. 31 CHAPTER IV. REMARKS ON THE REPORT OF HOEI-SHIN. THE land west of the Indus, known to us at the present day under the names of Avghanistan and Beloochistan, was converted, shortly after the death of the Indian reformer Buddha, to his doctrine, which spread the system of castes, and w...
Chapter V. Chinese And Japanese In Kamtschatk : p. 43 CHAPTER V. CHINESE AND JAPANESE IN KAMTSCHATKA AND THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. A NUMBER of facts, taken from the occurrences of later times, may be alleged to support the theory of a former intercourse of China and Japan with the islands which lie between those countries and America, and also with...
Chapter Iii. Tahan Or Aliaska, And Its Discovery : p. 24 CHAPTER III. TAHAN OR ALIASKA, AND ITS DISCOVERY. DURING the dynasty of Leang, in the first half of the sixth century, the Chinese often heard of a land situated 5000 of their miles to the eastward of the Painted People, who dwelt in the Aleutian Islands, and named it Tahan, or Great Ch...
Chapter Viii. Remarks On Colonel Kennon's Letter : p. 81 CHAPTER VIII. REMARKS ON COLONEL KENNON'S LETTER. THE letter from Colonel Kennon, and more particularly the argument for the settlement of Oceanica from Japan, are links in the chain of circumstantial evidence, showing that in all probability the inhabitants of Eastern Asia once passed...
Chapter Xii. Images Of Buddha : p. 119 CHAPTER XII. IMAGES OF BUDDHA. THE reader may recall that in the record of Hoei-shin he speaks particularly of the images of Buddha, in connection with the holy writings and religion of that great reformer, as having been taken to America in the year 458 by his five predecessors. I menti...
Chapter Xiii. Deguignes, Klaproth, And D'eichthal : p. 123 THE ADVOCATES AND OPPONENTS OF THE NARRATIVE OF HOEI-SHIN. DEGUIGNES, KLAPROTH, AND D'EICHTHAL. p. 125 CHAPTER XIII. DEGUIGNES, KLAPROTH, AND D'EICHTHAL. THE reader has probably inferred, from the allusions to Deguignes in Professor Neumann's work, that the Chinese discovery of Fusang is no...
Chapter Xiv. T. Simson And Dr E. Bretschneider : p. 159 THE LATEST DISCUSSION OF FUSANG. T. SIMSON, AND DR E. BRETSCHNEIDER. p. 161 CHAPTER XIV. T. SIMSON AND DR E. BRETSCHNEIDER; OR EUROPEANS RESIDING IN CHINA ON FUSANG. IN the "Notes and Queries on China and Japan," published at Hong Kong, there appeared in No. 4, April 1869, this...
Chapter I. Knowledge Of Foreign Countries : p. 1 THE NARRATIVE OF HOEI-SHIN, "WITH COMMENTS" BY PROFESSOR CARL F. NEUMANN. p. 3 CHAPTER I. KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES AMONG THE CHINESE. "To retain laws and customs according to the traditionary manner, and to extend these laws and customs to other lands," was the precept of the founders...
Memoir Of Professor Carl Friedrich Neumann : p. xi MEMOIR OF PROFESSOR CARL FRIEDRICH NEUMANN. p. xiii MEMOIR. CARL FRIEDRICH NEUMANN, the author of the subjoined memoir on the presumed early discovery of America by Buddhist monks, was of Jewish family, and born December 22, 1798, near Bamberg, Bavaria. He was intended for commerce, but...
Preface : p. v PREFACE. IT is now more than a century since the learned French sinologist Deguignes set forth, in a very ably-written paper in the "Mmoires de l'Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres" (vol. xxviii., 1761), the fact that he had found in the works of early Chinese historians a statement...
Chapter Vii. Navigation Of The North Pacific : p. 61 LETTER FROM COLONEL BARCLAY KENNON ON THE NAVIGATION OF THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. p. 63 CHAPTER VII. NAVIGATION OF THE NORTH PACIFIC. IT will naturally have occurred to the reader that the strongest proof which can be alleged in favour of the journey of Hoei-shin and his Buddhist predecessors...
Untitled : FUSANG The Discovery Of America By Chinese Buddhist Priests In The Fifth Century BY CHARLES G. LELAND [1875]
Appendix : p. 189 APPENDIX. IN the text of Professor Neumann's work, there is an extract from the "Nipponski", or Japanese Annals (from 661 until 696), relative to the Ainos, or inhabitants of Jeso. As anything concerning these inter-continental races is of interest in connection with the subject of this...
Title Page : FUSANG OR THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY CHINESE BUDDHIST PRIESTS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY. BY CHARLES G. LELAND. New York: J.W. Bouton [1875] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , January 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it w...