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ments in Siberia ; occupied Corea, where they still remain ; were 

 probably the earliest occupants of Japan ; whence, as the Othomis, they 

 departed for America in the eighth century. Later waves of this fecund 

 race, driven by stronger tribes into Eastern Siberia, crossed Behring 

 Strait, and flowed over the Eskimo area, into the present abodes of the 

 degenerate Denes. It is doubtful that any other people whose history 

 can be traced will exhibit a longer and more continuously eventful 

 career. 



I have said that, so far, we know nothing of the history of Tsochar, 

 the ancestor of the Denes, and, speaking strictly, this is true. But he 

 was, no doubt, the Deucalion of the Greeks, a diluvian hero. His 

 descendants appear to have separated during their abode in the 

 Euphratean region, into a northern and a southern division. The 

 fortunes of the former have already been before us. The latter became 

 amalgamated with certain sub-Semitic Turanians, related to the original 

 Amorites, Moabites and Ammonites, and, keeping a progressive eastern 

 course along the Persian gulf and along the western and southern shores 

 of India, arrived at last in the Malayan Archipelago. The Tagala 

 language of the Philippines bears their name, but the well-known 

 Polynesian god Tagala, Tangaloa, Tangaroa is the same personage as 

 Tigil of the Kamtchadales. The southern Tsochari found their way to 

 America as well as the northern, and appear in the central part of the 

 continent as the Tzotzils and Cachiquels of the Huastec-Maya-Quiche 

 family, whose great divinity was Tohil or Tockill. But their language, 

 that of the ancient Huns, of the Othomis, the Mantchus, the Denes, they 

 had lost, and with it their modes of life. The Maya-Quiche records 

 make what seem almost like prophetic allusions to this separation of the 

 tribes and still more strange to their reunion in an American home 

 Echoes of the famous Tsochar may be found in all lands, from the 

 Tigris to the Tigil, from the Greek Deucalion to the Maya-Quiche, 

 Tockill, from the Erse Declan to the Polynesian Tangaloa, and from an 

 Assyrian Tiglath to a Dene Tsekelne. 



