Aboriginal Names of Yucatan -- The Primitive Inhabitants from the East and West -- Zamná the Pontiff-King -- The Itzas at Chichen -- Rules of Cukulcan at Chichen and Mayapan -- His Disappearance on the Gulf Coast -- The Cocome Rule at Mayapan -- Appearance of the Tutul Xius -- Translation of the Maya Record by Perez and Brasseur -- Migration from Tulan -- Conquest of Bacalar and Chichen -- Itza Annals -- Tutul Xius at Uxmal -- Overthrow of the Cocome Dynasty -- The Confederacy, or Empire, of Tutul Xius, Itzas, and Cheles -- Fable of the Dwarf -- Overthrow of the Tutul Xius -- Final Period of Civil Wars 614 [Illustration: NATIVE RACES of the PACIFIC STATES Map of CENTRAL MEXICO _TO ILLUSTRATE_ PRIMITIVE HISTORY.] [Illustration: NATIVE RACES of the PACIFIC STATES showing the location of THE CIVILIZED NATIONS] THE NATIVE RACES OF THE PACIFIC STATES. PRIMITIVE HISTORY. CHAPTER I. ON THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICANS. Spirit of Inquiry in the Middle Ages -- Unity of Origin -- Flood Myths -- Aboriginal Traditions of Origin -- Culture-Heroes -- China -- Japan -- Hindostan -- Tartary -- The Egyptian Theory -- The Phœnicians -- Votan's Travels -- The Carthaginians -- The Hebrew Theory -- The Mormon Story -- The Visits of the Scandinavians -- Celtic Origin -- The Welsh -- Scotch -- Irish -- The Greeks and Romans -- The Story of Atlantis -- The Autochthonic Theory. When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especially the learned ecclesiastics, were sorely perplexed to account for such a discovery. A problem was placed before them, the solution of which was not to be found in the records of the ancients. On the contrary, it looked as if old-time traditions must give way, the infallibility of revealed knowledge must be called in question, even the holy scriptures must be interpreted anew. Another world, upheaved, as it were, from the depths of the Sea of Darkness, was suddenly placed before them. Strange races, speaking strange tongues, peopled the new land; curious plants covered its surface; animals unknown to science roamed through its immense forests; vast seas separated it from the known world; its boundaries were undefined; its whole character veiled in obscurity. Such was the mystery that, without rule or precedent, they were now required to fathom.