[CAMPBELL ] MEXICAN COLONIES TRACED BY LANGUAGE 235 
Celtic. The Berber and the Celtic agree in prepositional structure, in, 
pronominal suffixes, in the verb substantive, in the adventitious prefix 
and even affix of the letter t, and in medial vowel changes as puzzling as 
the Welsh. As for the vocabulary, I append a list of a hundred and 
forty different Berber words with their Celtic equivalents. Of these 
thirty-two are Guanche. The others, Berber, Shelluh, Siwahan, Showiah, 
Tuarick and Tibboo, I have denoted by B., S., Si., Sh., T. and Ti., and the 
Guanche by G. They are the remains of the ancient Numidians, who 
were identical with the Nemedians of Irish history. These were Medians 
with the prefix of the plural article na, and explain the statement of 
Sallust, in his Jugurthine war, that Hercules brought Medes into 
Numidia, whose name, he foolishly says, the Libyans corrupted into 
Mauri. They have a whole tribe of McZabs, and Mr. R. G. Haliburton, 
in some correspondence a good many years old, informed me that they 
greet one another like good Highlanders, with “ Aimarasha.” 
The Cymric element was strong in the Berber stock. Leo Africanus 
called them Gumeri, which Pégot Ogier compares with Gomera, the 
name of one of the Canary islands. Jackson in his account of Tim- 
buctoo and Housa, etc., says of the Zimurh Shelluhs: “They are a fine 
race of men, well-grown, and good figures ; they have a noble presence, 
and their physiognomy resembles the ancient Romans.” He also speaks 
of another clan, the Ait Amor, as of a warlike spirit, the English of 
Barbary. ‘ When the Sultan Muhamed began a campaign, he never 
entered the field without the warlike Ait Amor, who marched in the rear 
of the army ; these people received no pay, but were satisfied with what 
plunder they got after a battle ; and accordingly, this principle stimu- 
lating them, they were always foremost in any contest, dispute or battle. 
They begin the campaign almost in a state of nudity, and seldom return 
to their homes without abundance of apparel, arms, horses, camels, and 
money ; but this property quickly disappears, and these people are soon 
reduced to their wonted misery and nudity, and become impatient for 
another campaign of plunder.” The Berbers, including the Guanches, 
were differentiated from adjoining peoples by wearing drawers or trews, 
like the bracae or breeks of the ancient Gauls. Like the Celts, the 
Guanches fought bare-headed, bearing shields or targes which they called 
rondach, the Welsh rhodawr, and throwing darts termed bañot, the Erse 
bannsach. The Guanche temple, according to Pégot Ogier, was like that 
of Carnac in Brittany, and he cites many more peculiarly Celtic features 
in the Guanches and their Berber race on the African main. 
The Guanches, doubtless those who spoke the Celtic language, had a 
fantastical legend regarding their origin, which indicates at least an 
acquaintance with the ancient Romans. The Spanish friar whose work 
Glas translated, says: ‘Among the books of a library that was in the 
cathedral of St. Anna in Canaria, there was found one so disfigured that 
