238 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The following is a tentative genealogical tree : 



Tabera 
Temane Maneta I. 
| fil 
Telama Maneta IT. Ola Mamaye Machi 
Ahaluste Temachi Ochitu ? Tane 
| 
Otadi 
This gives five generations, the last of which, in the person 
of Otadi, may have been contemporary with Titus, about the year 80, A.D. 
Counting thirty yeurs to a generation, this would throw Tabera back to 
70, B.C., not far from the time when Sertorius in Spain heard of the 
Fortunate Isles for the first time. The annexation of the Canaries to the 
Roman Empire before the reign of Titus, and their government by a 
Munatius Plancus, and afterwards by an Ælius Lamia, are new facts in 
history, but they serve to explain the islanders’ tradition of the Romans. 
It is evident that the island of Hierro was peopled by Iberians from 
the Spanish coast, and that the neighbouring isle of Gomera with its port 
Amirri was colonized by Celts akin to the Berber tribes of Northern 
Africa. That the Iberian was the earlier colonizer seems to be proved by 
the fact that Hierro is the most westerly island of the group, evidence — 
that the Iberian was the man of the receding area before the Celt, by the 
tradition that the oldest race on the islands was that of the Achimenceys, 
named after the divine eponym Achaman; and by the preserved 
vocabularies of the Guanches containing Celtic terms only. The oldest 
habitations in Canaria, Orotaba, and Tegesta are called Telde, which must 
be the national title of the Iberians of the Islands. It answers to the 
Hittite race of the Zerethites, called Dardanians by the Greeks and 
Durdukka by the Assyrians. To this race Sheshai, Achiman, and Talmai 
belonged, and such were the Toltecs of Mexico, who are regarded as the 
most ancient ruling race of that country. In Spain these people were 
“known as the Turdetani. Strabo and other writers speak of the civiliza- 
tion of the Turdetani, who worked mines skilfully, manufactured goblets 
of the precious metals, and practised many useful mechanical arts. Some 
of these indeed they had acquired from the Carthaginians, and others 
from the Romans, but their own native civilization, transported from a 
distant eastern seat, was one of the oldest in the world. The practice in- 
dulged in by their representatives in the Canary Islands, of preserving 
the mummified bodies of their dead, their ancestors originally acquired 
in the ancient days of Egyptian history. 
