Innumerable are the legends of 'white Indians'--the 'white Panis,'[10] dwelling south of the Missouri, the 'Blanco Barbus, or white Indians with beards,' the Boroanes, the Guatosos of Costa Rica, the Malapoques in Brazil, the Guaranies in Paraguay, the Guiacas of Guiana, the Scheries of La Plata--but modern anthropology scarcely bears out the stories of the 'whiteness' of these tribes. On a similar footing are the travellers' tales concerning the existence of Indian Jews--to prove which Lord Kingsborough squandered a fortune and compiled a work on Mexican antiquities the parallel of which has not been known in the entire history of bibliography.[11] More convincing are the Mexican and Peruvian legends concerning the appearance of white and bearded culture-bringers. These legends are, it must be admitted, shadowy enough, but are so persistent and resemble each other so closely as to give some grounds for the supposition that at some period in the history of Mexico or Peru a member or members of the 'Caucasian' race may have stumbled into these civilisations through the accidents of shipwreck. But it is exceedingly dangerous to premise anything of the sort; and, as has been said before, the influence of such wanderers could only have been infinitesimal. Enough, then, has been said to show that the origins of the religions of Mexico and Peru could not have been of any other than an indigenous nature. Their evolution took place wholly upon American soil, and if resemblances appear in their systems to the mythologies or religions of Asia, they are explicable by that law now so well known to anthropologists and students of comparative religion, that, given similar circumstances, and similar environments, the evolution of the religious beliefs of widely separated peoples will proceed upon similar lines. SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY (_Those authorities marked with an asterisk are also applicable to the subject of Peruvian Mythology_). SAHAGUN, _Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España_. (English translation edited for the Hakluyt Society by Clements R. Markham in 1880.) TORQUEMADA, _Los veynte y un libros Rituales y Monarchia Yndiana_. IXTLILXOCHITL, _'Historia Chichimeca' and 'Relaciones' in_ Lord Kingsborough's _Mexican Antiquities_, vol. ix. PRESCOTT, _Conquest of Mexico_. *HUMBOLDT, _Vues des Cordillères et Monuments des Peuples de l'Amérique_. CLAVIGERO, _Storia antica del Messico_. (English translation by Charles Cullen. London, 1787.) BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, _Histoires des Nations civilisées du Mexique et de l'Amérique-centrale_, and _Quatre Lettres sur le Mexique_. BANCROFT, _Native Races of the Pacific States of North America_. KINGSBOROUGH, _Antiquities of Mexico_. *RÉVILLE, _The Hibbert Lectures_, 1884. *PAYNE, _History of the New World_, vols. i. and ii. TYLOR, _Anahuac_. BRINTON, _The Myths of the New World_.