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the Corean word for man, saram. But, in classical story, Kegilah is a 

 nymph '\cacallis connected with Garamas, the progenitor of those 

 Garamantes who were neighbours to the Nasamones. Finally 

 Eshtemog has given us the Zamuans, the Odomos, and Othomis, and, 

 by the change of m to n, the Tungus and the Denes ; and his son 

 Maachath was the ancestor of the Massagetae, whom Herodotus likens 

 to the Nasamones, of the noble Japanese family of the Masakados, and 

 of the Othomi class called Mazahui, Mazahua, and Matzahua. 



Few races are more degraded than the Denes and Othomis of to-day ; 

 but few have had a greater history. Of the particulars of the lives of 

 Tsochar and his son Shingar we, at present, know nothing. But 

 Amraphel fought under the banners of Chedorlaomer ; Machpelah gave 

 his name to an immortal cave ; and Ephron, the Apollon of the Greeks, 

 the Hittite conqueror of Hebron, acted the chivalrous gentleman 

 towards the bereaved father of the faithful. Yephunneh was Paeon, the 

 physician of the gods, and, with his son, Caleb, or Aesculapius, seems to 

 have exercised his art in Egypt. Classical story has feeble reflections 

 of Naham and his grandson Garmi as youthful scions of the Teucrian 

 Apollo, called Nasammon and Garamas ; while another descendant of 

 Naham, called Zophar, talked not too wisely with the afflicted patriarch 

 of the land of Uz. Next, we find the Tokkari, wearing a helmet wider 

 at the top than at the base, divided into coloured strips with disks of 

 metal attached to it, descending on the back of the neck and fastened 

 beneath the chin, carrying round shields with spears and short straight 

 sword, and fighting against the Egyptian troops of Rameses IV., while 

 their wicker work, oxen drawn wagons hold their wives and children in 

 the background. Again they come before us as the ruling Hittite tribe 

 of Northern Palestine and Syria in the days of Joshua, for king Jabin 

 who ruled at Hazor was of their line. Jabin and his city, a Japanese 

 Katsoura, were smitten by the Hebrew leader. About a century later, 

 a second Jabin of Hazor sent forth his general Sis'era to quell the 

 revolted Israelites with his nine hundred chariots of iron, but Barak 

 overthrew them at the springs of Kishon, and Sisera fell a victim to the 

 treachery of Jael the Kenite, a member of a related tribe. 



In the time of David, king of Israel, a body of this race, called the 

 Maachathitcs, dwelt to the east of the springs of Jordan between 

 Palestine and Syria, and made common cause with other Syrian tribes 

 and the Ammonites against the pious monarch, but Joab overcame 

 them, and David and Solomon ruled over Maachah. But, at least, one 

 Maachathite was numbered among David's chief captains. The 

 author of the book of Samuel calls him Eliphelet, the son of Ahasbai, 



