Fusang; Or, the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (Classic Reprint) Book

CHAPTER I KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES AMONG THE CHINESE. " To retain laws and customs according to the tradi-tionary manner, and to extend these laws and customs to other lands," was the precept of the founders of the Celestial Empire, as well as of other civilised nations. " But this extension," they added, " is not to be effected by the oratorical powers of single messengers, nor through the force of armed hordes. This renovation, as in every other sound organic growth which forces itself from within, can only take place when the Outer Barbarians, irresistibly compelled by the virtue and majesty of the Son of Heaven, blush for their barbarism, voluntarily obey the image of the Heavenly Father, and become men." It will be readily understood that a race holding such opinions would undertake no voyage of discovery, and attempt no conquests. Not a single instance occurs during the entire four thousand years of the history of Eastern Asia, of an individual who had travelled inTable of Contents THE NARRATIVE OF HOEI-SHIN, WITH COMMENTS BY PROFESSOR CARL F NEUMANN; CHAPTER I; KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES AMONG THE CHINESE, 3; CHINESE KNOWLEDGE OP LANDS AND NATIONS, 0; CHAPTER II; IDENTITY OF TOE TARTARS AND NOETH AMERICAN INDIANS ; On,; THE BO AD TO AMERICA, AND THE PECTLE IN IT, 7; TONGU9E EASTERN BARBARIANS, 8; XA1TTSCHATKA IN THE TIME OF TANG, 15; CHAPTER IIL; TAHAN OK ALIASKA, AND ITS DISCOVERY, 2i; THE KINGDOM OP FUSANG, OR MEXICO, 25; OF WRITING AND CIVIL REGULATIONS IN FOSANG, 26; THE KINGDOM AND THE NOBLES OF FUSANG 27; MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, 27; AMAZONIA, 29; xviii; CONTEXTS; chapter iv; imci:; REMARKS ON TQE REPOilT OF IIOEl-SlUX, 31; THE OLDEST BISTORT OF MEXICO, 33; TOE RUINS OV MITLA AND PALEXQUK, 31; FtJSANG, MAGCETj AGAVE AMERICANA, 37; METALS AND MONET, 3S; LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE AZTECS, 3'; DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 4f; chapter V; CHINESE AND JAPANESE TN KAMTSCHATKA AND THE HAWAIIAN; OUOO'i',4; THE FRead More