1890-91.] SIBERIAN INSCRIPTIONS. 277 



NOTES". 



1 Inscriptions de I'lenissei, recueillies et publi6es par la Soci^t^ Finlandaise d' Arcliteologie, 

 Helsingfors, Imprimerie de la Soci6t^ de Litt6rature finnoise, 1889. 

 ^ Inscrip. de I'lenissei, p. 3. 

 ' Strahlenberg, Das Nord und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia, 1730. 



* The bronze fragment is in The Hittite Track in the East, and appears to have been a 

 traveller's passport. 



*Some of these are represented in Inscriptions de I'lenissei ; others in Spassky's article on 

 Siberian Antiquities in the XI 1th volume of Transactions of the Imperial Society of Geography 

 of St. Petersburg, 1S57 ; and the Hittite Track in the East compares them with American 

 sculptures. 



6 Pallas, vol. IV. 



' The Hittites in Sinai, dealing with these inscriptions, is ready for the press. 



* Sufficient attention has not been paid to the Khitan, who figure largely in the history of 

 Northern Asia. They will be fully treated of in The Hittite Track in the East. 



' See my treatises on The Hittites, their Inscriptions and their History : Etruria Capta, 

 Trans. Canad. Inst. ; Monumental evidence of an Iberian population of the British Islands, 

 Trans. Celtic Soc'y. of Montreal : also The Eastern Track of the Hittites, The Hittites in Sina i 

 and the Western Hittites, in preparation. 

 i« See Plate I. 



"See The Hittites, 1. 38, and Plate, lerabis III. 

 12 Analysis of No. XX. 



Part I, line i. Mekuba, proper name feminine, Japanese Mikifito. 



toba'i, archaic form, composed of to, company, and hai, now hai, united to, 

 as in kai-suru, to mate, join together. In some Japanese dialects, 

 especially in the older language of the Loo Choo Islands, initial // 

 is pronounced/, indicating that the initial aspirate is the corniption 

 of an ancient labial. Of this there are many illustrations. A modern 

 word for " conipanion " is hobai, from ho, a side, and hai or bat, 

 joined to. 

 inito is not in modern use, but is the same word as 



mi-kado, king or emperor, literally tlie sublime porte, from mi, honourable, 

 and kaJo, a door ; but to designates a door as well as kado, and is 

 a much simpler and older term. 

 Metome, proper name, masculine, better Mi-tomo, the honourable com- 

 panion, and thus the same as the Otomo of Japanese history. 

 iku, now ikeru, to bury, put in the ground. The final i-u, ri of many 

 Japanese verbs is the verb arti, art, to be, and does not affect 

 the primitive root. 

 Mektiba, see first word, 

 line 2. kado, Jap. door. 



7ni, " imperat. of tttirtt, to see, behold. 

 toji, ■' adj. form oi toji-rti, to close, shut. 

 tachi, " to stand. 



abatta," pret. o( abai, to protect, defend. 

 ba, " conditional or potential suffix. 



