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and that it was introduced into India from thence. The author of this theory is the eminent
American explorer and archaeologist, Dr. Augustus Ie Plougeon, who spent some twelve years
of his life in exploring the wondrous antiquarian remains of Yucatan in Central America, and
in deciphering the inscriptions carved on the walls of those ancient buildings. A popular and
fascinating account of these researches of Dr. Plougeon and of his accomplished wife, Madame
Ie Plougeon, who shared with him the hardships and perils of that long period of exploration
in the wild and obscure recesses of Yucatan was published by his friend, Mr. D. R. OSullivan,
H.B.M., Vice-consul at Pemba, under the title of A fairy tale of Central American Travel in
the Review of Reviews (English) for September, 1895, pp. 271-281. In the course of his paper,
Mr. OSullivan has set forth, inter alia, Dr. Plougeons conclusions (based on his discovery
and decipherment of the Yucatan; that the legend about Cain and Abel (given in the book of
Genesis) had its birth place in the latter country: that the Sphinx was a monument erected by
his sorrowing spouse to the memory of her slain lord Abel; that the ancient Egyptian mysteries
were transplanted wholesale from Yucatan; and that the Greek alphabet is simply a Yucatanese
version of the destruction of the lost Atlantis.
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We have further historical evidence to show that several Indian Princes ruled in Upper
Burma and Siam. As far back as 105 A. D, an Indian king named Samuda reigned in Upper
Burma; whereas in 322 A. D, a prince of Cambodia in north-west India established a kingdom
in Siam. [ A History of Assam. By E. A. Gait, I. C. S. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co. 1900, p. 14]
In some remote period of antiquity, the Hindus established their supremacy in Java also,
where they appear to have disseminated the tenets of their religion most successfully, as is
testified to by the numerous remains of great temples and beautifully carved sculptures of
Hindu deities which exist there even at the present day. The Hindu religion flourished there till
about 1478 A. D. when it was supplanted by Islam. The ruins of the great temple at Borobodo
and those at Bramhanam and Gunong Pran still attest to the civilized world to what pitch of