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As in my last article in this Journal I furnished proofs of the 

 derivation of the Peruvians in general from the Japanese-Koriak 

 family to which the Ainos belong, it is natural that among the 

 members of this family one or more should be found exhibiting 

 the Sumerian character. It is also to be remembered that the 

 Ainos, like the Berbers and Aymaras, were sun-worshippers, and 

 that, in common with the latter people and the Guanches, they 

 embalmed the bodies of their dead. I therefore hold that the 

 Amoor of the Ainos is in a better connecting link between 

 Sumerian and Aymara than the Kammer of Cambodia. Yet I 

 would be far from denying the Sumerian origin of the Cambo- 

 dians. I can find no trace of their presence in the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, and no evidence that they (the Sumerians) or the Khita 

 were ever a maritime people. It may be objected that the Celts 

 were maritime, but it must be remembered that the Celtic popu- 

 lation of Wales even, the land of the Cymri, was according to 

 Cymric traditions made up of many stocks, of which that called 

 Cymric seems to have been least addicted to the sea.^ 



* Since writing this article I have discovered that the Khita con- 

 sisted of two distinct families, differing widely in language, character 

 and appearance. That family, of the relation of which to the Khita 

 I was ignorant till lately, has all its connections with the Malay- 

 Polynesian and Maya-Quiche peoples in point of language, culture, 

 maritime habits, etc., and undoubtedly followed the route indicated 

 by Dr. Hyde Clarke through Indo-China to the Malay Archipelago 

 and thence to America. The ancient buildings of Java and of Ascen- 

 sion and Easter Islands belonged to their period and form connecting 

 links between Chaldfean and Central American culture. This branch 

 of the Khita must have originated the Central American alphabets, 

 while there is no evidence that the nomadic landsmen of Hittite 

 name, with whom this paper chiefly deals, ever originated the art of 

 writing. 



In the Chronicon Paschale, Heth is made the father of the Darda- 

 nians. These Dardanians have been recognized as allies of the 

 Hittites in the Egyptian inscriptions, under the forms Khairetana, 

 Shardana, etc. ; which indicate that the initial letter of their name 

 was Z, so that Zarthan must have been their original designation. 

 With the Dardanians of the Egyptian monuments the Tocchari are 

 generally associated, just as the Teucri are with the Dardanians of 

 the Troade. The important discovery by the Rev. Professor Sayce of 

 Hittite remains in western Asia Minor may thus be accounted for, 

 since Teucri and Dardani once overspread that region. Should it 

 be proved that Carchemish belonged to this branch of the Hittite 

 family, its inscriptions may yet be deciphered by the aid of the Cen- 



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