248 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vou. VI. 
a Cayuga chief named Katorats, and the latter a Huron Tionon called - 
Mehashi. With slight differences, naturally arising from great intervals 
of time and space, they yield the same Japanese speech, the Latin or 
classical tongue of the northern Turanians. Next, we have in the 
Sinaitic peninsula or its vicinity a Kwmz or League, and its Kumz-no-to, 
or band of the League, an armed force at its command. The world has 
seen many leagues, from that of Chedorlaomer to the one which Henry of 
Navarre overthrew ; but this is a Turanian league in the midst of what 
in all historical time was a Semitic or sub-Semitic country. These 
leaguers were not Bedouins, Edomites, Nabateans, nor Israelites ; 
neither were they Egyptians, although there are Egyptian inscriptions 
of great antiquity in the Sinaitic peninsula alongside of the Sinaitic pro- 
per. The syllabary and language of these ancient leaguers are the 
same as those of the Iroquois, who also were famous for their League. 
This is no mere coincidence, for Turanian leagues are of rare occurrence. 
The inscription mentions three persons by name; Kudashita, the gen- 
eral of the band of the League; Dekanata, its head ; and Noba, with 
whom it allied itself when Kudashita fell. Kudashita in Japanese means 
“He has caused to yield or surrender.” Has reliable history any such 
name? In my volumes on The Hittites, whom I regard as the ancestors 
of the Japanese and many other Turanian peoples, including our Iro- 
quois, I have shown that a certain Achuzam was the eponym of the 
Zuzim of the Bible, the Gagama of the Assyrian inscriptions, and the 
Chicimecs of Mexico. He is not Kudashita, but in Genesis xxvi. 26, 
there appears a name of the same formation as Achuzam, namely Ach- 
uzzath, or, as King James’ version reads it, Ahuzzath, who was a friend 
of Abimelech, the Philistine king of Gerar, and is mentioned along with 
Phichol, the chief captain of the Philistine army. Whether what I read 
as kw was anciently pronounced aku or not, I do not know. The 
Basques, who are of the same stock, would doubtless prefix a vowel, a, 
e, or 2, and their ancestors may have done the same in early days, but it 
is not in the writing. Nevertheless, I am convinced that Kudashita is 
Achudzath, for that is the true transliteration of the Hebrew, and that he 
was a warrior, the friend of the Aryan Padishah, or, as the Hebrew 
translated the title, Abimelech of Gerar. He was also, by a common 
process of name corruption, the Odatshehte of the Oneidas, whom 
Dekanawidah, at the instigation of Hiawatha, gained over to the cause 
of the League. 
The Oneidas are the Onneyote of old writers, but the interchange of 
liquids in the Turanian tongues enables one to pierce the disguise of the 
