igoo-i.] Spanish Documents Relative to the Canary Islands. 63 



INSCRIPTION II. 



A^'e Mama zio utsite Taya ba Goma Taya so, 



indicates Mama to him to leave Taya if Goma Taya regard. 



koz Taya jabe Goma ema Mama 

 wishes Taya lord Goma gives Mama. 



" Mama indicates to him (that he will) evacuate Taya, if Goma 

 desires the regard of Taya. Mama gives Goma (to be) lord of Taya." 



As the Iberic name Telde remained in the islands after the 

 departure of the Toltecs, it is probable that they left other names, 

 which the Guanches did not supersede, just as many Pictish and other 

 Iberic names survive in the British Islands. Such in Scotland are the 

 Goldenberry hills, whose true name was the Basque golde-nabara, " the 

 ploughshare." Places called Taya and Taha are not uncommon in the 

 Canaries. The inscription records the cession of an inhabited tract, 

 so called, by a chief named Mama to another bearing the designation 

 Goma, or perhaps gomu, the remembrance. That it was inhabited is 

 indicated by the so or regard of its people as a factor in the cession. 

 Taya may be the modern itai, a scythe, reaping hook, so called on 

 account of its appearance, like the Greek Zancle or Messana. The 

 prefix of vowels, such as the i of itai seems to be a modern feature of 

 language ; in Etruscan days, the verbs "to give" and "to place" seem 

 to have been )}ia and ;;/z, not ema-n and tmi-ni, as now. 



INSCRIPTION III. 



This is to be read in the same order as No. II. 



