ACOSTA, 136
Affinities of American and Asiatic languages, 99
Agattou and Semitchi Islands, 69
Age of stone or bronze, 162, 165
Ainos or Jebis, extent of the race, 11; called Crab Barbarians, ib.; when first described, 12; called Hairy People, ib.; embassy to Japan, ib.; wars against Japan, 14; images of, 22; paint themselves, 140; same as Mao-jen, 174. Vide Appendix.
Akkad, 100
Albert Gallatin on American languages, 156
Alceste Island, 66
Aleutian or Fox Islands, 11, 22, 70
Aliaska on the early maps, 148
Aloe, Mexican, known in China, 162
Amakirima, 67
Amazonia, 29
Ambassadors from Fusang, 184; Ambassade des Hollandais, 129; first Japanese to China, 173
America, how first populated, 8; formation of American races, ib.; their unity, ib.
American coast, castaways on, 43, 76
Amur or Amoor River, 132; Tartars on the, 145
Anahuac, 35
Ancient races of North American Indians, 100 et seq.
Ancient records of Mexico, 86
Ancient vessels of North-eastern Asia, 64
Andræ and Geiger, 166
Antecedent probability that Orientals went to America, 59
Aztec god of war, 36; computation of time, 39
Aztecs declare they came from the north, 136; later accounts of, 33
"Archiv für die wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland," 149
Arrow-heads made of flint, 165
Atsowma, 175
Attou Island, 68
Aymara, Peruvian, 100
BAY of St Lawrence, Siberia, 75
Baikal, Lake, 144
Bartlett, John Russell, 151
Beans, Mexican (frijoles), 135
Behring's Straits or Anadir, 9
"Bibliotheca Sinologica," 166
Bigandet, Father R. R., 93
Bison and oxen, 153
Black Dragon River, 15
"Book of Mountains and Seas," 12
Brasseur de Bourbourg, L’Abbé, 151
Bretschneider, Dr, his opinion of Hoei-shin, 165; his discussion of Fusang, ib.; his opinion of all who believe in Fusang, 169; he approves of Father Hyacinth's expression, 170; Reply to Dr Bretschneider, 176; summary of his argument, 185
Broussonetia papyrifera, 172, 180
Buache, Philip, his map, 126, 147
Buddha, images of, 119; attitude of, 120
Buddhism, 4; its influence in partly breaking Chinese exclusiveness, 5; in Fusang, 28; its extension, 31; introduced into Fusang, 143; its progress, 113; not understood by Deguignes, 155; introduced into Japan, 156, 163
Buddhist priests in America, discussed by Simson, 162; monks, 5; Trinity, ib.; writings an important part of Chinese literature and history, 65; travels of, 87
Burlinghame, 175
Burnouf, works of, 156
CACTUS, in ancient Mexican, tuna, 119
California, coast of, 147; Chinese merchants there in early times, 150
Cape San Lucas, 71
Carpin, Jean du Plan de, 33
Catacualcans, 136
Catlin, 152
Chan-hai-king on Fusang, 143
Chamo, great desert of, 130
Charlevoix, "Histoire de la Nouvelle France," 137
Che-goi tribes, sable hunters, 132 et seq.
Chicago, ancient skulls from, 111
Children, change in appearance of, in new climates, 78
Chinese precepts relative to the outer world, 3; early embassies, 4; reception of envoys, ib.; knowledge of foreign countries, 6; pride and vanity, ib.; acquire knowledge of North-eastern Asia, 9; Chinese and Japanese in Kamtschatka and the Hawaiian group, 43; et seq.; Recorder and Missionary Journal, 165; Chinese poets, 169
Chippeway perpetual fire, 184
Chi-tao-an, 89
Chi-wu-ming-shi-tu-k’ao, drawing of Hibiscus in the, 170
Chu-kon, Kon-sang, Kon-shu, 172
Chu-kin, Chi-kin, Jiki, synonyms for Hibiscus rosa siniensis, 170
Chy-wei Youtché or Youtchy, 144
Cibola, 152
Clavigero, Storia Antica del Messico, 35
Clarke Hyde, Mr, 99
Cocom, Indian chief, shows picture of a cow; ancient prophecy told by him, 154
Cochran, Lieutenant, 130
Colours applied to cycles of time, 40
Continental Magazine (N.Y.) for 1862 contained a portion of the present work, 163
Cooper, Fenimore, name of vessel, 68, 76
Currents, the Japanese, 74; the Peruvian or Humboldt Current, ib.
D'ACOSTA, 150
Dakota or Sioux language, 101; affinity with Ural-Altaic languages, 102; resemblance of Dakotas to Tartars, 192
Dead placed in trees by the Tunguse, 10
Deer, 10
Deguignes, Klaproth, and D’Eichthal, 125; Deguignes determined that Wenshin was Jeso, 129; old writers cited by, ib.; his account of the different people on the route more detailed than Neumann's, 131; determined that Fusang was New Mexico, 133; remarks on Kingdom of Women, 134; his argument, 138; wrote according to his title, 139; on the second itinerary, 143 et seq.; traces the route, 148 et seq.; cited by Bretschneider, 166
D’Eichthal, his memoir, 125, 127 et seq.; his defence of Deguignes, 125 et seq.; observations on Aleutian Islands, 132; on distance from Tahan, 140
De Laët, 127; describes Pueblo Indians, 136
De Landa, Diego de, on Yucatan, 153
De Long, Mr, on the Ainos and Japanese, 189
Delaware Indians called women, 134
De l’Isle, M. Guillaume, 147
"Description of Western Countries," a Chinese work destroyed in Pekin, 89
Distance between Corea and middle of Niphon, 140; from China to Fusang, as claimed by the believers in Hoei-shin, fully admitted by Dr Bretschneider, 182
Djourdje, ancestors of the present Mongols, 144
Dogs, swine, devils, and savages, Chinese names for races of the north, south, east, and west, 6; dogs in Kamtschatka, 20; dog smelling land, 73
Domestic animals in Fusang, 40
Dryanda cordata, 171
EASTERN and Central Asiatic History, 6
Edrisi, 30
Elæococca verucosa, 171
Empress Tai-Hau of the Wei dynasty, possibly the patroness of Hoei-shin, 6
Esquimaux, 11
Ethnology, accuracy in, 114
Ewbank, Thomas, 151
FA-HIAN, 89, 90; Travels of, 92
Fa-kiai-ngan-litu, i.e., More Certain Tables of Religion, 32
Feathers, ball of, seen by Mexican goddess, 36
Fishermen, Chinese and Japanese, 66
Flying natives of Fusang, fable of, 143
Florida, Straits of, 74
Flower of the Centre, name for China, 6
Fogs in Kamtschatka, 73
Foster, Y. W., LL.D., 115
Fruit preserved, 69
Furs in the Aleutian Islands, 132
Fusang, kingdom of, 25 et seq.; latest discussions of, 142, 161; Fusang-tree, 45, 162; malvaceous, 164; envoys from Pusan; to China, 175; not in Japan, 142, 173
Future of Eastern Asia, 46
Garments and colours peculiar to the King of Fusang, 27
Gaubil, "Observations Mathématiques," 9, 40; researches in Chinese astronomy, 128
Gentleman's Magazine, 165
Geographers, early, probably possessed information relative to the North Pacific Ocean now lost, 147
Gipsy names for animals, 41, 164; affinities with Hindoos, 192
Gobineau, Count, his ideas as to ancient America, 176; regards it as the world's cradle, 176
Goei-chi (A.D. 510), 129
Gold in Fusang, 28
Good Hope, Cape of, 75
Great Ireland, 24
Green-corn festival of the Creek Indians, 56; dance of the, ib.
Grellon, Père, finds a Huron woman in Tartary, 137
Grijalva, Juan de, nephew of Velasquez, 36
Greek priest and family in Atcha, 69
Grotius, 127
HAKODODI, 67
Han, history of the later, 173; in Corea, ib.
Hanley, Mr, 172
Hawaiian Spectator, 44
Hei-chi, black-toothed men, 167
Herrera, Antonio de, 38
Hiao-wou-te of Souang, reign of, 155
Hibiscus rosa siniensis, called Fusang in Pekin, 170; Hibiscus syriacus, ib.
Hieronymus d’Angelis, 46
Hinds domesticated in Fusang, 154
Hiouen-thsang, life and travels of, 88
"Histoire des Huns, des Turcs, des Mongoles," &c., par Joseph Deguignes. 138
History and journeys of fifty-six monks of the dynasty of Thang, 92
History of the Master of the Law of the three collections of the Convent of Grand Benevolence, 91
Hoai-nan-tsu, the, on Fusang, 143
Hoam-ho River, 131
Hoang-hoin, 144
Hodgson, works of, 156
Hoei-shin, Hoei-schin, Hui-shên, name how written, vi.; verification of his assertions, 187; narrative as translated by Professor Neumann from the Chinese, and revised by him, 3; meaning of the word, 25; his journey, 58; his route, 130; his description of the American aloe, 172; he confuses plants, ib.; Hui-shên, "a lying priest," according to Bretschneider, 166; narrative of Hoei-shin as given by Bretschneider, 168
Hoei-khé Turks, 144
Hoei-li, 91
Hoei-seng and Seng-yung, memoir of, 93
Hoffmann, 14
Hong-ing-ta, the expounder of King in the times of Tang, 25
Hong Kong Island, 67 Hontan, Baron de, 137 Horne, George, 136
Hing-goci, native name for Kamtschatka, 15
Huitzilopotschli, 36
Humboldt, "Views of the Cordilleras," 156; "New Spain," 40
Hyde Clarke, 54
Hyacinth, Father, 170
ICHI, the King of Fusang, 27; Ichi and Irica, 52
Identity of Tartars and North American Indians, 7
Than, the celebrated astronomer, 15
Incas, 50; going forth of, 52; ritual of, ib.; garments of, their colours, 53; married their own sisters, 56
Indian women of North America greatly resemble the Chinese, 135 Iron in Fusang, 28, 172
Irving, Washington, "Knickerbocker History of New York," 127
Islands in the Aleutian Chain, Boulder, Kusha, Amtchitka, Krysi, or Rat Island, in the Andranof group, Tonago, Adakh, Atkha, Animnak, 69
Itölmen, or natives of Kamtschatka, 17; dwellings of, ib.; clothing, 19; music, 20
JAPAN, Notes and Queries on China and, 161; coast of, 66, 74; Ainos in, 140; as it was, 54; not Fusang, 142; Buddhism introduced, 143, 156; Broussonetia in, 172; origin of name, 174
Japanese year-books, 12; annals from 661 until 696, 14; facetiæ, 29; junk, 44; Government, 45, 75; junk wrecked, 45; vessel in America, ib.; charts, 76; junk picked up, 77; resemblance of, to Sandwich Islanders, 77; religion, 78; navigation, 81; early discovery of America by, 126; Wenshin N.W. of Japan, 129; maps, 147
Jean du Plan de Carpin, 32
Jeddo, 4
Jesuit missionaries, 43
Jetschay, 16; Jetschaykno, ib.
Juan de Grijalva, nephew of Velasquez, 36
Juen-kien-hui-han, 14
Jipen, 174
KALOSCHEN, 10
Kampfer, the first who spoke of America as known from early times to the Japanese, 126.
Kamtschatka, 11, ] 4; in the time of Tang, 15; distance from Sigan, the capital of China, ib.; description of, by Steller, ib.; identity with Lieu-kuei, ib.; dwellings, 19; climate, ib.; habits of the people, ib.
Kang-hi, encyclopædia of, 14
Kao-thsang, the Emperor, 89
Kapilapura, King of, 5
Kara-korum, 144
Karl Gutzlaff, 45
Kennon, Colonel Barclay, his assistance, 63; letter from, 65; brief memoir of, 94; his personal knowledge of the North Pacific, 126 el seq.; on furs, 133
Khi-nie, itinerary of, 92
Khirgiz or Kirkis, 144
Kien-hai Lake or Baikal, 168
Kie-kia-ssu, countries of, 168
Kingdom and nobles of Fusang, 27
King-tschu, 25
Kipin, five beggar monks from, introduce Buddhism into Fusang, Kipin, and Beloochistan, 31; Kipin, Koppen, Bokhara, 155.
Klaproth, Julius von, 125; passed translation from the Chinese as his own, 12,174; attempted to refute Deguignes, 125 et seq.; "Récherches sur le Pays de Fou-sang," 138; ridicules Deguignes, ib.; thought Tahan was Kamtschatka, 141; argument against Deguignes, ib.; contradicts his text according to D’Eichthal, 142, 156; according to Bretschneider, he refuted Deguignes, 168; "Tableau Historiques," 168; his disciple, Bretschneider, 176; severely judged, 183
Knickerbocker Magazine for 1850 contained the first English version of Neumann's work on Fusang, now given in this volume, 163
Ko-li-han, or Choran, country of, 130
Kong, the Hill of, 25
Kou-li-han, country of, 144
Kousang plant resembles the maguey, 180
Kocoima walrus-hunters often carried on ice-fields from the Asiatic to the American shore, 137
Krusenstern, Straits of, 66
Ku, country of, 168
Kuang-wu, reign of, 173
Kurile or Aleutian Islands, 11, 65, 67, 132
Kuro-suvo, or Japanese current, 71, 74
LADRONE Islands, 74
Lao-tse, 3
La Perouse, Strait of, 141
Leang, dynasty of, 24; Leang-schu, 25
Leao-tong, northern province of China, 128, 140
Leg of mutton, time measured by roasting, 10
Lew-Chew, Loo-Choo, natives of, without iron, 172
Li, Chinese measure of distance, 128; in the fifth century, 140; twenty thousand li from Tahan, 141
Liang dynasty, history of, 166
Liang-ssu-kung-ki, passage from the, stating that ambassadors went from Fusang to China, 175, 184
Liang-sze-kung-ki, the, 184
Lieu-kuei, its situation, 15; meaning of the word, 16; king of, sent his son to China, 145
Life of Gaudama, 93
Li-pe-tai on Fusang, 143
Li-sao, the, on Fusang, T43
Li-yen, a Chinese historian, speaks of Fusang, 127
Loo-chooese and Japanese, 79
Lorchas Islands, 74
MADJICO Sima group, 67
Maguey or Agave americana, 37, 162, 171
Malvacea, Fusang-tree, 170-180
Mamma or ama, found in many languages, 107
Mandans, 152; their heaven and hell, 153
Mandeville, Sir John, and other travellers, 33
Mantchou tribes dressed in fish-skins, 20; Jupi, ib.
Mao jen, the hairy men, or Ainos, 12, 174
Ma (or Man) tu-an-lin, 12, 14, 24, 166
Marriage in Fusang, 46
Marvels and romances of Fusang, 32; marvels narrated by Hoei-shin, 94
Matsumai, 67
Maury (vide Revue des Deux Mondes, April 1858), 132
Mau-shin, Mosin, 11
Melendez, Pedro, 136
"Mémoirs de l’Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres," 22, 125, 126, 148
Memoirs of the kingdoms of Buddha, 90
Merchants, foreign, clothed in silk among the Catacualcans, 136
Metals and money, 38
Mexican antiquities, 113; god of air, ib.; monuments, pyramidal form of, 35; money, 38; nobility, four orders of, 39
Metals and money in Fusang, 38
Miles, Colonel, translator of the "Shajrat-ul-Atrak," his translation of "tung," 9
Milk known to ancient Mexicans, 154
Mirambecs, Indians near the Great Salt Lake, 137
Mirrors brought from Fusang, 184; Peruvian mirrors, ib.
Mitla and Palenque, ruins of, 34
Moko or Mongolians, 16
Mongols, Mongol or Mog, 9
Mongolian, affinity of languages to Dakota Indian; a Mongol resembles an Apache, 95
Montesinos, 53
Mormonism not Christianity, as stated by Dr Bretschneider, 184
Mormon country, 173
Morton, Dr S., his views of American Indians, 194
Moslem, 31
Mossman, S., on the early Japanese, 190
Mound-builders, 110; character of, ib.
Mourning for the dead in Fusang, 28
Mu-kin, 170
Mulberry-trees in Fusang, 143
Mummies in Aliaska, 192
"Münchener Gelehrte Anzeigen," 24
NAGERA, Castañeda de, 151
Naked men, lands of, 167
Names, how given by newcomers into strange lands, 164
Nan-su, the historian, 134
Narrative of Hoei-shin, with comments by Professor C. F. Neumann, 1; as given by Bretschneider, 165
Na-to-scha, nobles of Fusang, 27
Nausse or history of the southern dynasty, 22
Navigation, early Chinese, 64
Neumann, Professor C. F., memoir of, vi.; education and life, ib.; his works, xiv.; his work on Fusang, 3; Neumann not read by Dr Bretschneider, but attacked by the latter, 178
New Spain, 36
New Mexico, early seat of ancient Mexican civilisation, 151; Indians of New Mexico, 135
Niça, Father, saw white Indians, 152
Nineveh Library, discovery of, 50
Niphon, 67
Northern California, Chinese traded with, in remote times, 136
Norsemen in America, 32
North American Indians, resemblance of, to Mongolians, 80
Notes and Queries on China and Japan, request in, for information on Fusang, 173; on Fusang, 161, 166
Nu-wang-kuo, 175
ODIN, EIGHT RINGS OF, 36
Onon, the River, 144
Orchon, left bank of, 144
Ordos or Ho-tao country, 144
Oregon, 71
"Ost-Asien and West-Amerika, Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Erdkunde," April 1864, an article by Neumann which refers the nativity of Hoei-shin to China, 139
Ostrogoths and European nations, 8
Oxen in Fusang, 40
PACHACOMAC, 55
Pacific Islands to the leeward of Japan, 79
Papua or New Guinea, 12
Parsees, the, 95
Pears in Fusang, 28
Pe-hai, North Sea, and Schao-hai, Little Sea, 16
Perez José, in Revue Orientale et Americaine, 142
Peru and Fusang, 49 et seq.; Peruvian Incas, 60; houses, 51; cycles, 53; traditions of the Deluge, 54; of the good Deity, ib.; Peruvian and Chinese policy alike, 55; graves, 7
Peter and Paul's Haven, 15
Peti or northern savages, 9
Pictures by Chinese botanists, 179
Pi-khieou or priests of Buddha, 155
Piljo-tai-hotun, 131
Polaris, crew of, 137
Posten, Hon. C. D., 95
Postpositions, 107
"Prehistoric Races of the United States of America," 115
Prescott, "History of Mexico," 34, 37
Prester John, 33
Probability of voyages made by ancient Japanese, 74
Prostitution or polygamy in Utah, 182
Pueblo Indians of light colour, 135; cloth, ib.; dwellings, ib.
Pun-tsao, 171
Pun-tsao-kang-mu, 170
QUIVIR, 136
RED Indians and Chinese, affinities between, 192
"Relation des Mongols ou Tartares," by Jean du Plan de Carpin, 33
Remarks on the text of Professor Neumann, 49
Renzi, "Memoires de la Société des Antiquaires, Partie linguistique," 8 "Reports of Explorations and Surveys for the Pacific Railroad," 151
Revue des Deux Mondes, 149
Revue Archæologique, 132
Roehrig, F. L. O., 100
Roger's Straits, 66
Romances of Fusan;, 143; poets who have written on it, ib.
Rosny, Léon de, 169
Russian establishments on St Paul and St George, 132
SAGHALIEN, Fusang according to Bretschneider, 175; not in a temperate climate, 172
Sákka, Sakkū, a swan, 161
Salt Lake City, 173
Samarcaud, a stronghold of Buddhism, 155; Bonzes from, ib.
San Bias, 33
Sanson, his map, 147
Sandwich Islanders resemble Japanese, 77
Saturday Review, 115
Schakia, religion of, 36
Schan-hai-king, 12
Schensi, district of, 15
Shajrat-ul-Atrak, or genealogical tree of the Turks and Tartars, 9
Shapa, capital of Loo-choo Islands, 67
Siebold, "Japanese Archives," 14
Sigan, the ancient capital of China, 15
Silver in Fusang, 28
Simson Theos., 161 et seq.; approved by Dr Bretschneider, 179
Simson, William, F.R.G.S., 99
Sloane, Hans, 148
Song, Great Light of, 28
Stags in Fusang, 28; stag-horns, 40
Stanislas, Julien, 88 et seq.
Steller, "Description of Kamtschatka," 11, 17
Stems, Mongol and Mantchou, 40
Sterculia plantanifolia, 171
Sultoi-Noss, 145
Sum or Sung dynasty, 145
Sun makes his toilet in Fusang, 143
Sung-yen, the mission of, 92, 93; probably contemporary with Hoei-shin, 92
TAHAN, means Great China, 24; distance, 33, 57, 127, 129; five thousand li between Jesso and Tahan, 131; travellers' route to, ib. reached by sea, 133; Tahan to Fusang, 166; 20,000 li, 140; route to, 144, 146; envoys from, first came to China in seventh century, 168; according to Bretschneider in Siberia, 175
Tai-Hau, Empress Dowager, 93
Tam-chu, route to America, 131, 133
Tang dynasty, history of, 167, 174
Tang-schu or year-books of Tang, 12; ruler of Tang, 13; Kamtschatka described in the time of, 15; error in Tang-schu, 16
Tapia, Señor José Ortiz, 113
Tarai-kai, was it Tahan? 141
Taravey, his two works on the Fusang question, 166
Tartars' Hades, 8; Tartar cycle and its colours, 53
Tattooing by Wen-shin and by North American Indians, 167
Tchitchagoff, 68
Tchung-cheou-kiang-tching, 131
Temperature of Bhering's Straits, 74; of Matsumai, 75
Ternaux Company, 151
"The devil who runs through," i.e., Lien-kuei, 16
"The devil's companion," i.e., Jetschay, 16
Thom, Mr Robert, 90
Time measured by roasting legs of mutton, 130
Tomsk, 168
Travellers, the old, not now entirely discredited because they narrated marvels, 175
Tschen, dynasty of, 11
Tschuktschi or Koljuschens, 10, 16
Tschu-tschu or Land of Dwarfs, 12
Tuilu, nobles of Fusang, 27
Tuna, Mexican word for cactus, 179
T’ung, the tree, 171
Tunguse, Turks, Mongolians, &c., identical with the Esquimaux races, 7; Tungese Eastern barbarians, 8; geographical situation of, 9; customs, 10
Turner, Professor W. W., 151; works of, 156
"UNIVERSAL Compassion," meaning of the name Hoei-shin, 25
Uries, Strait of, 130
Vasco de Gama, 75
Vasquez, Fr., de Coronado, 136
Vancouver's Island, 71
Ven-hien-tum-kao, the historian (A.D. 515), 131, 134
Vessels driven by storms to America from Asia, 134
Vestal virgins in Peru, 55; among the Pueblo Indians, to keep their fire burning, 195
Vine known in Mexico, 152
Viracocha, 55
Visnago, Cactæ globosæ, 179
Voyages can be made from China to America in sight of land, 71
WENJAMINOW, Father, "Sur les Isles Aleoutiennes du District de Unalaska," 149
Wen-shin or Painted People, 11, 22; the country of the, same as Jeso, 140
"Western Countries, Memoirs of," edited by Hioen-thsang, 91 Western Mountain of the Gods, 4
Whipple, Lieutenant A. W., report by, 151
White aborigines in Mexico, 152
Winaland or Vineland, 32
Wilson, Daniel, LL.D., "American Ethnology," 193
Wo, ancient name for Japan, 174
Women and children, Japanese and Chinese, go to sea with head of family, 77
Women, Kingdom of, in Fusang, 29; situated 1000 li east of Fusang, 134; tribes of aborigines in North America called women, ib.; story of the Kingdom of Women only given as a report by Hoei-shin, ib.; not in Japan, 142, 169; no mammæ, ib.; suckle children, ib.; kingdom, where situated, 173, 182, 286 (sic); in Japan, 175
Wo-nu, envoys from the, 173
Woo-sung River, 66
Wog or Mog Mongolians, 9
Wrangell, Rear-Admiral, "Les Renseignements, &c., sur les Possessions Russes," 148
Writing, Chinese, introduced into Japan A.D. 280, 174
Wu-ti, Emperor, 173
YAMATO or Ye-ma-t'ai, 175, 280 (sic)
Yang-kon, Valley of, 143
Yang-tse-kiang, 66
Year-books of the Chinese Empire, 5, 15; of the Southern dynasty, 22; year-books of Leang, 22, 26
Ye-ma-t'ai, 173
Yenissey, 168
Yen-thsang, 91
Y. J. A. inquires in Chinese Notes and Queries as to Fusang, 161 et seq.
Yucatan, 73
Yu-tche, a race derived from the Che-goei, 133
Yu-t'ung tree, 171
ZENGHIS Khan or Tschinggs Chakan, 9
Zuni, White Indians at, 152
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