[CAMPBELL] MEXICAN COLONIES TRACED BY LANGUAGE 209 
of the Incas had held a footing on the islands were the frequent occur- 
rence of the geographical name Telde, and the statement that the most 
ancient. stock in occupation had been that of the Achimenceys, so named 
after a divine progenitor Achaman. This latter is the same being as the 
Japanese war god Hachiman, and, going farther back, bears the name of 
Abiman or Achiman, the son of Anak of Kirjath Arba in Canaan. The 
Peruvian form of the name is Huaman, and it was borne by five at least 
of the Incas. 
During the winter of 1897-98 I received from Mr. Henri O'Shea of 
Biarritz, a manuscript in Spanish, written by Senor Don Juan Béthen- 
court Alfonso of St. Cruz, Tenerife, and containing over thirty copies of 
inscriptions found on the rocks of Hierro, the most south-westerly of the 
Canary group. Most of these I found little difficulty in transliterating 
and translating, having become perfectly familiar with their characters 
through Etruscan and Celt-Iberian studies, and being credited by Basque 
scholars with an intimate knowledge of their language in its earlier 
stages. These inscriptions settle the question as to an Iberic occupation 
of the islands, at first prior to, and afterwards contemporary with, a 
Celtic population akin to the Berbers, and having its chief affinities with 
the Cymric branch of the Celtic family. These Hierro inscriptions I now 
allow to speak for themselves, before proceeding to further argument 
based upon their existence, and leading up to a knowledge of the first 
American colony received from the east. 
