€0 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. V. 



No. 3. — /// ro ' hi iva ' ta ki a te ma pa ka sJii 7'a fu ri'fti ri ya me ski po 

 hi. 



No. 4. — ta ki sa i fu ' iva ta ga ye hi to ' ki ski po hi fu zaa la ma hi a te 

 ma pa mi to. 



In Japanese order, this is : 



No. I. — Ri ^f., J fu to, Maka-Wala ka . . . tsu tawashi Mashima 

 Tolaku mito. 



No. 2. — Mekushi mito gunsJd 2 hikite shimeko Furi fumuka ^ toshi Furi 

 Atempa semedashita mito . . . biicJii ko. 



No. 3. — Hiro ' kuiva ' taki Atempa kasliira Furi' Furi yame Shipoku. 



No. 4. — Taki saifu ' watagaye Jiito ' ki Shipoku fu Wala-Maka 'Atempa 

 mito. 



The translation of this valuable document is : " Mashima, king of 

 Tolaku, the general of the king of Mekushi, overthrew in battle Maka- 

 Wala, twelve hundred, three score and ten. Furi having resisted four 

 years two summons to withdraw, the king drove him by force out of 

 Atempa and . . . put him to death. 



" The great fire burns Furi, the captain of Atempa, and Shipoku, the 

 wife of Furi. It also burns a man transgressing the peace. The father 

 of Shipoku is Wala-Maka, the king of Atempa." 



The other inscribed tablet from Iowa was found in 1878, in a mound 

 not far from that which contained the cremation scene. Its inscription 

 is very brief, consisting of four characters to the left of a rude effigy, and 

 three, with signs of numeration, to the right. Between the two groups, 

 and above the head of the figure, is the representation of a copper axe, 

 and over the whole are carvings in imitation of two of the stone pipes, 

 exhibiting animal figures, that were found in the mounds. The inscrip- 

 tion, so far as the numerals go, must be read in the light of Mashima's 

 record, for it presents in part a new system of notation. 



No. VII. 



Left side : Maka Wala. 

 Right side : BucJiiko = 4 "^ 3, i, 10, 2. 

 In English : 



" Maka-Wala 

 Killed 1272." 



Here the parallels must be symbols of the ri toslii or period of 300 

 3'ears ; the v i on its side must similarly represent the old word for 



