At intervals extending through several years, when released from the pressure of my public work, I have been engaged in the collection of the materials, both at home and abroad, from old manuscripts, books, pamphlets, magazines, and papers. The subject was not common, neither were the materials. What are the facts? That is the question. Facts of history, experience, observation. Speculative verbiage is avoided, for want of time and space. Others are made to take my place, for the sake of presenting what _they knew_. Such a method is more convincing than the expression of empty opinions. B. F. B. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE THE MIGRATIONS OF THE WELSH 9 CHAPTER II. BY WHOM WAS AMERICA FIRST PEOPLED? 17 CHAPTER III. THE VOYAGES OF PRINCE MADOC 25 CHAPTER IV. SUPPORTED BY WELSH AND OTHER HISTORIANS 34 CHAPTER V. THE NARRATIVE OF REV. MORGAN JONES 47 CHAPTER VI. THE NARRATIVE OF REV. CHARLES BEATTY 59 CHAPTER VII. THE WELSH INDIANS MOVING WEST 71 CHAPTER VIII. THE DISPERSION OF THE WELSH INDIANS 85 CHAPTER IX. MAURICE GRIFFITH'S AND HIS COMPANIONS' EXPERIENCE 96 CHAPTER X. CAPTAIN ISAAC STUART, GOVERNORS SEVIER AND DINWIDDIE, GENERAL MORGAN LEWIS--THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WELSH INDIANS 109 CHAPTER XI. THE MANDAN INDIANS: WHO ARE THEY? 120 CHAPTER XII. WELSH BLOOD IN THE AZTECS 130 CHAPTER XIII. THE MOQUIS, MOHAVES, AND MODOCS 145 CHAPTER XIV. SIGNS OF FREEMASONRY AMONG INDIANS 156 CHAPTER XV. THE WELSH LANGUAGE AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS 159 CHAPTER XVI. THE WELSH OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 165 CHAPTER XVII. ADDRESS OF REV. DAVID JONES AT TICONDEROGA 180 AMERICA DISCOVERED BY THE WELSH. CHAPTER I. THE MIGRATIONS OF THE WELSH. The etymology of the names of persons, places, and things is a curious subject of inquiry. It is one of the safest guides in an attempt to distinguish the race-differences of a people whose history reaches back to an immemorial era.