"All the nations have I destroyed before them: and in _the East_, I have scattered the people of the provinces, even of _Tyrus_ and Sidon." [Esdras ii. 12.] Sahagun the Spanish historian, who lived nearly sixty years with the Mexicans, and wrote about fifteen years after the Conquest by Cortez (1520) relates, that, from their traditional history, handed down from remote antiquity,--_the Aborigines of the Country, first_ TOUCHED at Florida,--then_ COASTED _along, until they reached the Bay of Honduras,--and they then_ LANDED. It will be observed that the terms "touched" "coasted" and "landed" are phrases belonging exclusively to Navigation,--this confirms the reply of Montezuma, that his ancestors originally _came_ FROM _the East_, for by Navigation only could they come from that quarter,--and as a consequence they sailed _towards the West_, and across the Atlantic Ocean! The tradition of having "_first touched at_ FLORIDA," is as remarkable, as the means of Nature whereby it was accomplished, which will be investigated and established in the last pages of this Volume. Cortez wished to sail around the Bay of Honduras, the Point of Yucatan, and thence into the Gulph of Mexico,--and inquired if there were descriptions of those coasts. Montezuma instantly presented to the Spaniard _Maps and Charts of the entire Coast_, and from these, Cortez steered, and sailed in his perilous voyage around Honduras, and by the correctness of the Charts, he accomplished his expedition in safety. This account he wrote home to his Emperor and Master, Charles the Fifth,--it is consequently history:--no argument is, therefore, required to prove their Knowledge, and that of their ancestors in the Science of Navigation;--and what people in the Asiatic world were such "pilots and mariners" as the ancient Tyrians? If the Mexican Aborigines had sprung from a race (like the Israelites of the North) having _no_ knowledge of navigation, it would have been impossible to have had Maps and Charts from their remote ancestors, and to have continued the scientific practice of that knowledge among themselves. This is another strong proof of the _two_ races of Aborigines on the Western Continent; and of the different means whereby their migrations were accomplished. Sahagun, also, relates that from testimony of tradition, and _their historical Paintings_, that their ancestors, _as a Colony_--arrived on the American coast (first touching at Florida) _before the Christian Æra_! It should be observed that this account by the Spaniard was written over three hundred years ago,--it was then laughed at,--but the time was computed both by the Aborigines and Sahagun,--_the former_, as well as the latter, had a knowledge of the Christian Æra, as will be proved in the third volume,--That knowledge was conveyed to them _after_ the arrival of the colony;--and nearly fifteen centuries before the conquest by Cortez!