No. 6.] CAMPBELL — HITTITES IN AMERICA. 345 



HITTITES IN AMERICA. 



By John Campbell, M.A. 



Professor in the Presbyterian College, Montreal. 



(^Continued from page 296.) 



In a paper recently read before the Canadian Institute I set 

 forth the radical unity of the Peruvian vocabulary with that of 

 the Iroquois. This well known North American family might 

 naturally be expected to connect with the Basques, since the 

 Huron god Tawiscara and the tribe of the Tuscaroras preserve 

 the Euskara name.-'^ The following table shews how valuable 

 an adjunct to ethnological research mythological and tribal names 

 are, and how great is the vitality of words even under what are 

 generally supposed to be the most unfavourable conditions. 

 Judged by the vocabulary, there are few languages which exhibit 

 relationship more perfectly than those widely separated tongues, 

 the Basque and the Iroquois ; and it must be remembered that 

 their grammatical systems, while not agreeing in all points, are 

 far from discordant, as has been proved by that distinguished 

 Basque and Oriental scholar, M. Julien Vinson of Bayonne. 



Basque. Wyandot-Iboquois. 



all gucia agwegough Mohawk. 



basket otarra atere Iroquois. 



below beherra karo " 



bird choria garioha " 



blue urdina horanhiahen /. 



brother anaya haenyeha Wyandot. 



cloud edoya ods ad ah ilf. 



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The permanence among uncivilized peoples of tribal and even of 

 personal names is a doctrine that has not received the support which 

 the evidence in its favour demands. It is well illustrated among the 

 Hurons, as I have learned from " Historical Notes on the Environs of 

 Quebec," written by my esteemed colleague, J. M. LeMoine, Esq. 

 Many distinguished chiefs of the Lorette Hurons, from the time when 

 Euroi^eans first became acquainted with them, have borne the name 

 Atsistari or Ahatsistari, the fearless man-, and at the present day it is 

 the Indian title of M. A. N. Montpetit, an honorary chief of the 

 nation. This Ahatsistari is undoubtedly the Hasisadra of the Accad-» 

 ians, the Ashtar of the Khita, and the Haitor of the Basques. The 

 Hittite proper name Ahashtari, which is that of the brother of Zoliar, 

 father of Ephron, who sold Machpelah to Abraham, is almost identical 

 in form with the Huron Ahatsistari of to-day. 



