2G4 transactioxs of the Canadian ixsTiruTic. [Yol. 1Y. 



Certain families, endowed with peculiar virtues, physical and mental, 

 rose to the position of kings of men, and lorded it over sections of the 

 Groutid race. Such kings of men among the Turanians were the Khita 

 or Hittites, and under their power fell Semitic descendants of Aram, 

 Lud, and Elam, and many Hamitic, and, perhaps, even Japhetic 

 families. Thus, the historical Turanian peoples of antiquity, whatever 

 the origin of their physical substratum, bore the Hittite name until their 

 dispersion by the arms of the Assyrian Sargon in the end of the eighth 

 century B.C., and some of them down to a much later date, as witness 

 the Kliitan of northern China in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 

 A.D., and the Khitts of the Siberian Yenisei at the present day. In a 

 former paper, I have shown that the people who built up a large wooden 

 civilization in Siberia from the fifth century onward, and who left written 

 monuments behind them, were branches of the Khitan, as their monu- 

 ments denote, and, at the same time, the Japanese in migration. They 

 migrated to Siberia from northern India, and their language is that 

 fundamentally of the aboriginal or Turanian peoples of Hindostan. 

 They were Buddhists, some of them fleeing from the persecution of their 

 Pagan relatives or of the rising Brahman.^ 



The Siberian characters are not identical with those of the Lat alpha- 

 bet, being much more rudely formed ; but it is a matter of very little 

 difficulty to exhibit the essential unity of the two systems of writing. 

 In tracing the characters west of India, and between that country and 

 the ancient Hittite habitats in Media, Mesopotamia, and Syria, they 

 appear on Parthian coins down to and beyond the Christian era, but, so 

 far as the time of migration is concerned, the labours of the excavator 

 have not yet discovered the historical connection. A study of the 

 original significance of the hieroglyphic Hittite characters enables the 

 investigator to recognize, in the Parthian and Lat Indian, conventional 

 or cursive forms of the same, and to read them without difficulty. 

 When thus read, the inscriptions yield, like the Siberian, archaic Japan- 

 ese. In this connection I may say that Dr. Jonathan Goble, who was 

 a member of Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan, and who has 

 studied Japanese for more than forty years, thus corroborates my 

 Siberian readings : " As translated by you, I find these ancient legends 

 almost pure classical Japanese, that I can make out without the least 

 difficulty." As I do not claim the ability to write classical Japanese, it 

 is evident that I must have found it already written. Such also is the 

 language of the Buddhist inscriptions of northern India, whose writers, 

 in several places, call themselves by the name Kita. Some translations 

 of these I have presented in The Hittites, and a number of them, furnish- 

 ing important data for India's lost history, will yet be found in the 



