1894-95.] ABORIGINAL AMEKICAN INSCRIPTIONS. 59 



In connected order: 



In English 



Tsuifu- TeJiifu Lifiitsii 

 MitOy ( I ), I -10, 2-20 itsu 7'i. 



■ Tsuifu-Tehifu Lifutsu 

 King (i), i-io, 2-20, 5-300. 



Freely : " Tsuifu-Tehifu, King of Lifutsu, 



fifteen hundred and fifty-one." 



The only Khitan era is that of the death of Buddha ; hence 155 i after 

 Buddha places the inscription in 1074 A.D. The Lifutsu were the later 

 Tallapoosas of Alabama and Georgia ; and Tsuifu Tehifu might be read 

 Tsuifu-Tabi, when its meaning would be " the banished wanderer." 

 Certainly, the first part of the king's name denotes his banishment, but 

 from whence is a mystery. His time was that of the great upheaval 

 which removed the Toltec dynasty from Mexico to Peru. In 1062, just 

 twelve years before Tsuifu's burial in the Brush Creek Mound, this event 

 took place, so that it is within the bounds of possibility that Mexico was 

 the civilized home from which he was banished. 



Most unworthy charges of fraud have been laid at the door of the 

 Davenport Academy of Science in connection with the finding of two 

 phonetically inscribed tablets in mounds near that city in Iowa. These 

 tablets are of precisely the same character as those already deciphered, 

 and as forgeries at the time are a simple impossibility. But ignorance 

 and presumption have no limits. The tablet representing a cremation 

 scene contains somewhat irregular groups of characters, which for con- 

 venience I arrange in four lines. It inverts the usual order, beginning at 

 the right hand upper corner, and returning boustrophedon. But the third 

 line begins at the left, and the fourth at the right. Its characters are 

 roughly executed, partaking to a certain extent of the hieroglyphic form. 

 An s syllable in particular, representing the pointing of the hand to the 

 face, is there, although rare in Siberia and in India. It is common, how- 

 ever, in Syrian Hittite and in Mexican hieroglyphic. 



The lines read as follows : 



No. VI. 



No. I. — ri 4 J fu to ma ka iva la ka . . . tsu ta wa shi ma sJii ma to 

 la ku mi to. 



No. 2. — me kii shi mi to gu ne shi 2 hi ki te shi me ko fu ri fu mu ka 4. to 

 shi ftt ri a te ma pa se me da shi ta mi to . . . bu chi ko. 



