e. The
number of actual settlers from the east were doubtless few. In erecting
the structures which have been so much admired and wondered at, they
doubtless used the labors of untold thousands of the aboriginal
inhabitants, appealing perhaps to their fears and desires to conciliate
the favor of that God, whose terrors made the Phoenecian priests such
an irresistable[TN-9] power over the nations in the west and north of
Europe.

But if for a moment superstition lost its terrors, this little flock of
more intelligent incomers were powerless to resist the avenging hands of
the million aboriginal barbarians. But we are not engaged in discussing
the mode in which this people became extinct, but choose to confine
ourselves to the questions, who were they, and where did they come from?
We say without hesitation, that when Columbus parted from Palos in
Spain, he sailed from a Phoenician city, in Phoenician vessels, manned
by Phoenician crews to rediscover worlds that the Phoenician ancestors
of these men had known and settled not less than three thousand years
before. We believe that traditions had always existed in Spain, whose
blood up to the Ebro is almost purely Phoenician, of these western
worlds discovered by their fathers. No nation north of Spain could be
induced to give any considerable attention to the arguments and
solicitations of Columbus. True, Ferdinand and Isabella were of northern
blood, red haired Goths, but their northern blood had been nourished for
a thousand years upon the hillsides of Northern Spain, and they had
become Spaniards in fact, with all Spanish beliefs and tendencies.
Beyond all question Columbus took into account the Norwegian and
Icelandic voyages and the voyage of Madoc with his Welsh brethren. But
Columbus knew that those voyages only claimed to relate to lands lying
west and north-west of the Straits of Gibraltar. But when Columbus
unfurled his sails outside these Straits, in latitude thirty-five, he
made no effort to find the lands claimed to have been discovered by the
Icelanders, Norwegians or Welsh, but directed his course to a point from
fifteen to twenty degrees farther south, and thus reopened to the
knowledge of the world what should have been the happy islands of the
west and the storied gardens of the Hesperides. We make no doubt that
the Incas of Peru were brought to that country by the ships of the same
Phoenician people. But the Incas were very few in number, and came to
Per