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attempt at polysynthesis. With the western group of inscriptions we 
are not now concerned, but the eastern series has much to do with 
American origines. A study of the Buddhist inscriptions of India reveals 
the fact that the Buddhists, who were lords of northern India from the 
fifth century B.C., till at least the fourth A.D., were the Japanese and 
their congeners, and that the monumental facts are the data both of 
the Raja Tarangini or history of the kings of Cashmere and of the 
annals of the Emperors of Japan. The next series of inscriptions is the 
Siberian in a somewhat ruder script ‘and in the same Japanese idiom. 
These begin with the fifth century A.D., and extend to the eighth, and 
they furnish the names and deeds of several Chinese Khitan kings and 
Japanese Dairis or Mikados, who appparently were never out of Siberia. 
Their Siberian empire had its centre about the Yenisei, and the name 
common to all their tribes was Kita as it was in India, In Klaproth’s 
time a remnant still dwelt there whose name for an individual was Khitt 
or Hitt, and one of whose tribes was that of the Kenniyeng, meaning the 
same as the name of the Mohawks, Kanienke, the Flint people. Kita, 
Khitt or Hitt is the Japanese Hito, a man, and the American Choctaw 
Hattak. 
Some Japanese tracings of inscriptions in the Siberian characters 
have been sent to me, but they are so defaced and fragmentary that, 
although their oneness with the Siberian is evident, they are virtually 
illegible. Doubtless more will yet be discovered in a more perfect 
condition, I have submitted specimens of the Indian and Siberian 
inscriptions, with key, transliteration, and translation, to the Canadian 
Institute, which has published many documents by me on the subject. 
Last year I contributed to its transactions a paper on Aboriginal 
American Inscriptions in Phonetic Characters. It dealt with two mound 
inscriptions from Davenport, Iowa, the Grave Creek stone from West 
Virginia, the Brush Creek stone and an inscribed effigy from Ohio, the 
Newburyport inscription from Massachusetts, and the Yarmouth rock of 
Nova Scotia. These seven inscriptions are all of the same character as 
those of the Yenisei, and that of the Yarmouth rock, the genuineness of 
which is incontestable, might have been copied, character by character, 
from the runes of Siberia, of the existence of which Nova Scotians and 
Americans generally are still in profound ignorance. The language the 
seven American inscriptions furnish is classical Japanese, and the dates 
recorded on some of them, reckoned from the nirvana of Buddha, ascend 
to the eighth century A.D. Some of their contents indicate that the 
tribes which once dwelt in Iowa and elsewhere along the Mississippi and 
the Ohio, gradually found their way south to Mexico. 
The aborigines of America are not destitute of history. Cusick’s 
“History of the Six Nations,” Peter Dooyentate Clarke’s ‘‘History of the 
W yandotts,” ‘The Iroquois Book of Rites,” and the ‘ Walum Olum of 
