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In the preceding table it will be seen that the Circassian 

 agrees in many words with the Kamtchatdale, which again has 

 much in common with the Dacotah dialects. The Accad, on the 

 other hand, connects more clearly with the Japanese and Loo 

 Choo, not only in the ordinary vocabulary but in certain terms 

 denoting the transmission of culture, such as sar, shirushi, write, 

 sumuk, shomots, book, car, gisgal, durud, siro, gooseescoo, toride, 

 fortress, bir, iru, paint, and eri, iri, servant. The civilization of 

 Japan, therefore, is to be regarded, neither as indigenous nor as 

 borrowed from China, but a civilization regularly transmitted 

 along the line of Accadian migration, and sufficiently established 

 to be able to reproduce itself in such distant regions as New 

 Granada and Peru. How it passed from Japan to these coun- 

 tries it is hard to say. Japanese junks have been cast on the 

 western shores of North America, and it may be that navigation 

 had somethino- to do with the transference of the Khita from the 

 one continent to the other. But the other tribes of Hittite origin, 

 the Choctaws, Iroquois and Dacotahs, seem to have entered upon 

 their American home at the far north-west by the stepping stones 

 of the Aleutan chain, and by the same route the semi-civilized 

 Mound Builders must have reached tlie scenes of their long for- 

 saken labours. Were these Mound Builders not part of the 

 Khita migration, and may they not even have been Quichuas and 

 Muyscas on their way to a South- American home, where, under 

 more ftivorable conditions, they rose to higher things and emula- 

 ted the deeds of their ancestors in Japan and Chaldea ? 



There is a branch of the Khita dispersion which I have merely 

 mentioned, but which deserves fuller attention. It is that which 

 I supposed to have been driven into Nubia by the conquering 

 Pharaohs of the eighteenth dynasty, the stock commonly known 

 as Nubian or Barabra. I do not build anything upon the Bara- 

 bra name, but simply allow their language to speak for itself. I 

 am also ignorant of its grammatical forms, but these Dr. Lepsius 

 states bear no likeness either to the Semitic or to the Egyptian. 

 They may, therefore, be Turanian. The vocabulary is Hittite, 

 if Basque and the other languages I have connected with it be 

 Hittite ; and, on a comparison with these languages, presents 

 some of the most remarkable instances of the vitality of words 

 that philology records. It is worthy of note that the Hittite 

 Sheth or Ashtar was one of the principal divinities of Nubia. 



