242 2OYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
IV. THE LANDING OF THE CANARY ISLANDERS. 
I have already indicated that the Zerethites in America bore the 
Toltec name, the Mexicans being deficient in the sound of r in their 
language. There is no such deficiency in Peruvian nor in Canarian 
Basque, yet Telde apparently represents Zereth in the latter. Now 
Zereth must be the Japanese tswreta, led in company or a troop, and such 
is the signification of the Basque talde. In Mexican the Toltec name 
means mechanical skill, probably arising out of the superior genius of the 
immigrant Telde from the Canaries. The earliest Mexican date is 717 
A.D., when the Toltec empire began in Mexico. During some of their 
wanderings the sage Hueman had been the leader of the Toltecs. Here 
is Ahiman, Achaman, and the Peruvian Huaman over again. Some 
Mexican historians represent the Toltecs and Olmecs as coming by ship 
to the Mexican coast from the direction of Florida. But others make 
the Olmecs long prior to the Toltecs, and the destroyers of the barbarous 
Quinames or giants. They came to the land of Potonchan in the 
vicinity of Vera Cruz. Now the names, geographical or mythological, on 
American ground, such as Potonchan, Peten, and Votan, are of great 
importance, for they reveal to us who the vanished Olmecs were. 
Before I had the remotest idea of an America colonized from the 
east, I said, “there is little doubt that the Olmecs of early Mexican 
history were Celtic, but no trace of an Olmec nation on American soil 
remains, so that the Mexican tradition may relate to some ancient seat in 
the Old World.” The racial or tribal designation Olm is to a student 
of Celtic antiquities as significant as to one of other studies would be 
Hellas and Roma, Saxon and Dane, Plantagenet and Tudor. It is a 
purely Celtic word, the Gaelic ollamh, the scholar or doctor of science. 
The first who bore the name, according to the Irish annals, was Ollamh 
Fodhla, who instituted the parliament or legal and literary assembly of 
Tara in the year of the world 3082. He was no mythical personage, but 
a genuine Babylonian monarch, King of Sumer and Accad, named Ulam 
Buryas, who appears in Mr. T. G. Pinches list of early Babylonian kings 
between Simmas-Sigu and Nazi-Urutas. He was called Ulam Buryas 
because he was Ulam, the son of Buryas. In the remarkable conglomera- 
tion of ancient genealogies, contained in the first book of Chronicles in 
the Hebrew Scriptures, he is called Ulam, the son of Peresh, and the 
father of Bedan (I. Chron., vil., 16, 17). He belonged to the family of 
Zimran, the eldest son of Abraham by the Perizzite Princess Keturah, 
and the ancestor of the Zimri or Cymri. From Peresh descended the 
