[I-108] This relation, says Ranking, 'has naturally enough been considered by Robertson and others as a ridiculous fable; and any reader would be inclined to treat it as such, were it not accounted for by the invasion of Japan, and the very numerous and convincing proofs of the identity of the Mongols and the Incas.' _Hist. Researches_, p. 55. He thinks that the giants were the Mongolian invaders, mounted upon the elephants which they brought with them. 'The elephants,' he says, 'would, no doubt, be defended by their usual armor on such an extraordinary occasion, and the space for the eyes would appear monstrous. The remark about the beards, &c., shows that the man and the elephant were considered as one person. It is a new and curious _folio_ edition of the Centaurs and Lapithæ; and we cannot wonder that, on such a novel occasion, Cape St. Helen's did not produce an American Theseus.' _Id._, pp. 53-4.
[I-109] See _Ranking's Hist. Researches_, p. 56, et seq.; _Warden_, _Recherches_, pp. 187-9.
[I-110] _Origin of the Japanese Race, and their Relation to the American Continent_, MS.
[I-111] See report of a lecture read by Charles Wolcott Brooks before the California Academy of Science, in _Daily Alta California_, May 4, 1875; _San Francisco Evening Bulletin_, same date.
[I-112] See report of paper submitted by Mr Brooks to the California Academy of Sciences, in _San Francisco Evening Bulletin_, March 2, 1875. In this report the details and date of each wreck are given. The author of the paper assures me that he has records of over one hundred such disasters. Every one of these wrecks, when examined, proved to be Japanese, and not one Chinese. See also _Irving's Bonneville's Adven._, p. 427; _Smith's Human Species_, p. 239; _Roquefeuil_, in _Nouvelles Annales des Voy._, 1823, tom. xviii., pp. 248-9; _Anderson_, in _Hist. Mag._, vol. vii., pp. 80-1; _Lassepas_, _Baja Cal._, pp. 45-6.
[I-113] _Id._ _Lord's Nat._, vol. ii., pp. 216-7. 'Looking only at the _forms_ and endings of the words, their _ring_ and _sounds_ when uttered, we could not but notice the striking similarity, in these respects, between the proper names as found on the map of Japan, and many of the names given to places, rivers, etc., in this country.' (America.) _Rockwell_, in _Hist. Mag._, n. s., vol. iii., p. 141.