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Cantabri of Spain, and the Ælius Lamia of Tacitus, who died A.D. 33. 
Three generations of Turanian princes preceded the arrival of Lamia in 
Hierro, so that the probability is that they had been in possession of 
the Cañaries some time before the Christian era. As M. O’Shea’s presen- 
tation of my work of translation is not easy of access to the general 
reader, | subjoin an English version of it, adding thereto the plates of 
inscriptions, 
A reference to the piate containing a list of the Hierro characters 
and their phonetic equivalents, will enabie the reader to follow the trans- 
lation, and a Basque dictionary, such as that of Van Eys, will reveal the 
meaning of the text thus discovered. Lexical and syntactical explanations 
are thrown into an appendix, lest they should encumber the text un- 
necessarily. The numbers which follow correspond to those of the inscrip- 
tions in the plates. 
Oh pees Eg ueradints The CA: LP 
Du rank HA hate d'y Mathew TAN 
ES P it nfk en) € U0 Ui Nag 
Aas) 
La ne NN car 4 aba 
fu K vy hkl wth D an) 4 Vas 
a Wh 422) J, Matty A" 
AU Jy Ahoy P= Noa 
Jan, Os CC, é 
PLATE I. 
No. I.—tsu ta shi na 
This is an unhistorical fragment, neither pure Basque nor pure Japanese. As 
the latter, it would read dzuta shoni, succeeding son or heir, and this in Basque 
would be atzeta sein, or after child. The Turanian shoni and sein are evidently the 
originals of the Germanic sohn and English son. 
