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himself slain. As the son of Mauro-sar or Sar-mauro, perhaps a Gaelic 

 Ceir-bheoil, the name of the father of the first Irish Diarmaid, he could 

 not claim the Campbell name, which was that of his uncle Chanan-baal, 

 or Baal-hanan, with inversion of parts. They were, therefore, pure 

 Celts who carried the story of Canek or Conan to Central America. 

 The exigences of the Celtic proof, and no desire to refer to the origines 

 of the family to which he has the honour to belong, have led the writer 

 to what may seem to some a genealogical excursus. The Bu-chanans 

 and Bu-chans are very probably of the same Baai-chanan ancestry. 



The burden of proof the writer lays on the vocabularies, which 

 present incontrovertible evidence that the language of the Guanches 

 was, with the exception of a few loan words of Iberic origin chiefly, 

 purely Celtic, both in vocabulary and in grammatical construction, and 

 that that of the Peruvians, and in particular of the Aymaras, though 

 Iberic in grammar, was very largely Celtic in vocabulary. He has also 

 presented evidence of various kinds for the advent of an Olmec or 

 Celtic people to the shores of America, for their presence in the 

 vicinity of Mexico, and finally for their existence at the present day 

 in Peru. And in many ways he has shewn that these Celts came from 

 the Canary Islands, where they and Iberians once dwelt side by side, 

 and from which, as Olmecs and Toltecs, they migrated in company. 

 As to the period of that migration, there is nothing to proceed upon 

 but the statements of the Mexican historians as to the foundation of 

 the Toltec monarchies. That of Culhuacan began, under the King 

 Nauhyotl, in 717, and that of Tollan, under Mixcohuatl-Mazatzin, in 

 752. Are these Toltec names or Aztec disguises? Nauhyotl means 

 in Aztec " the four quarters," and answers to the Peruvian title of the 

 Incas. The old Basque term for /aur, four, was nora, as several 

 Etruscan records testify, perhaps the original of the Aztec umtk or 

 nahui. To make the four quarters, the Basque offers the addition of 

 aide, line, gune, tegi, toki or ziri, each meaning "a place, region, or 

 quarter." A name in the eleventh inscription of Hierro, published by 

 Mr. O'Shea, is rendered provisionally Notara. As the Basques use 

 lau as often as laur to denote four, the Iberians of the Canaries may 

 have abbreviated nora to no. Then tara or tari would represent the 

 present B. ziri, and the Japanese atari, a region ; the whole as no-tari, 

 giving " the four regions." Mixcohuatl or " the cloud burst " is a 

 purely Mexican word : buJuimba would be the Basque equivalent, and 

 bofu, the Japanese. 



The land of Chicomoztoc or the Seven Grottos, whence came the 

 Toltecs and Olmecs, admirably describes the Canary Islands both as 



