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381 ARE INDIANS OP JAPANESE ORIGIN? 383 But to get down to what is Impwn. There can be no disputing thefact that the Philippine Islands ar© about QOO mBes from the coast of China, and mind you, there are numerous i&lands scattered all the way; we know that these islands have been known to the Chinese and Japs for along time; then there are many small islands scattered over the Pacific, notably the Ladrohe and Hawaiian Islands. But please stop for a few minutes and look at th6 map of the Pacific Ocean and you will be astonished at ^e hundreds if not thousands of islands scattered all the way from China to the coast of America. On the map it seems as though you could step from one to the other. Who knows but long before Robinson Crusoe (Alexander Selkirk) was left ontihe island of Juan Fernandez that Chinamen or Japs put in there; for it is a continuation of these numerous islands, and is ozdy 400 miles from the Chile coast near Valparaiso. And we know that lihe Japs are great water people; and may not in early times these people have made trips over the smooth Pacific water and left colonies here? and does not Chinese and Nippon literature claim to have known of the American continent? and have not some of our own scientists claimed to have found evidences of their being along the Pacific coast? But more par- ticularly, take the face and hair of the average Indian, if it does not plainly show Chinese or Japanese, then there is something wrong with one's optics; and there la reason to suppose that the natives are descended from the Japs because of the possibility of Japanese reaching North America by way of Behring Strait. Perhaps our party is not as restless as you are, dear reader, to get to the end, therefore they will be. hurried up for your sake. So on the morning of the second day, which is a day sooner than expected, Alonso informs his principal that he believes his horse can make at least ten miles by leading him, and.