15. Kingsborough's Mexican Antiquities, Vol. VI., p. 176, note. Bouturini is an authority frequently quoted by Prescott, who has an extended note upon the valuable collection of native memorials of primitive civilization of America made by Bouturini. (See "Conquest of Mexico" Vol. I., p. 126). He was a Milanese by birth, and came to America in 1735 on some business of the Countess Santibanez, a lineal descendant of Montezuma. While in America he traveled extensively in Mexico and Central America, and made the before mentioned collection of memorials. Baldwin also mentions him with approval. (See "Ancient America," p. 195.) 16. Peruvian Antiquities, Tschudi, p. 59. 17. Peruvian Antiquities, Tschudi, p. 60. Compare III. Nephi, chap. viii. 18. I say the year A. D. 32, or 33, for the reason that we do not know how long the reign of Manco-Capac III--who is represented in the foregoing quotation as reigning "at the time of the birth of Christ"--continued after the birth of Messiah; not long evidently; but sufficiently long to make up the difference between A. D. 32 and the time of Messiah's death. Baldwin also refers to the same event, Ancient America, p. 266. 19. Born in France, 1814. Died at Nice, 1874. A French clergyman, ethnologist and author. He was teacher and priest in Canada and the United States 1845-48. From 1854-1863 he traveled extensively in Mexico and Central America studying Indian antiquities and ancient manuscripts. 20. Native Races, Vol. V., pp. 127, 129. 21. Ancient America, pp. 176, 177. 22. Pre-Historic America, pp. 16, 17. 23. Pre-Historic America, p. 527. 24. Native Races, Vol. III., p. 110. 25. Conquest of Mexico, Vol. I., pp. 105, 106. CHAPTER XXXI INDIRECT EXTERNAL EVIDENCES--AMERICAN TRADITIONS. (Continued.) I. _Messiah in the Western Hemisphere._ The appearance of Messiah in the western hemisphere, no less than the signs of his birth and death, is a circumstance that would undoubtedly find lodgment in the tradition of the native Americans. The manner of it, as described in the Book of Mormon, was as follows: It appears that a short time after the cataclysms which were the sign to the western world of Messiah's death, a number of people in the land Bountiful--a district of country in South America where the isthmus of Panama joins the south continent, and most likely including some part of that isthmus--were in the vicinity of a temple that had escaped destruction, and were conversing upon the many physical changes which had taken place in the land, and also of this same Jesus, of whose death they had received such appalling evidences, when--but let me quote the account of the event from the Book of Mormon: