John Ranking

John Ranking was an English merchant and amateur historian who proposed, among other things, that the Kublai Khan's naval fleet, sent to invade Japan, was carried across the Pacific and landed in South America, which they subsequently conquered and established as the Inca Empire under the rulership of the Kublai Khan's son, who became known as Manco Cápac, and that this same Mongol fleet had brought elephants with them into the New World.