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1898-99.] THE OLDEST WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS. 253 
Mr. Forster’s No. 16 gives some news concerning Coz or Kushi. It 
is from the Wady Eufrea, and reads in one line: 
‘No. II. ma ma_ ku shi kibi ma ko ko mano dzu ta 
or, mi mi Kushi Kibi mukoko Aman _ dzuta 
great great Kusht Kitbi son-in-law Ammon successor 
Freely rendered it gives, “ The very great Kushi, the son-in-law of Kibi, 
the successor of Ammon.” Here Kibi represents Ziph or Khufu, the 
builder of the great pyramid, whose brother-in-law Coz was; but in 
Japanese mo is a son-in-law, and brother-in-law is ave-muko or zmtoto- 
muko. Literally mauko-ko would mean the son of a son-in-law, which 
would complicate matters still more. Noba or Anub appears in Mr. 
Forster’s No. 19 from the Wady Mokkateb, where the Achudzath 
inscription comes from. It is broken into two lines which read : 
No. III. Kima mama no ba ma kidzu be no 
no shi no ki dzu yo 
This is: 
Kemi mi mi Noba makedzu_ Beno- 
Kemi great great Anub conquers Beno 
-nesa noki dzu yo 
of the enemy head from 
“ The very great Anub conquers Chemi from the chief of the enemy of 
the Benones.” Here Chemi does not stand for the whole of Egypt, but 
for Chemmis or Panopolis in the upper kingdom, whither the arms of 
Amen-em-hat extended. The Benones again are not the Punt or 
Phount, who were negroes of the race of Phut, the son of Ham, but a 
Hittite stock, the descendants of a Jephunneh, son of Ephron, great 
grandson of Zohar or Tsochar, and the father of a Caleb who became 
the Greek A¢sculapius ; for Yephunneh was Peon, the father of that 
physician, and Tsochar was Teucer, from whom he descended through 
Ephron or Apollon. The Benones are the Tokari, often mentioned on 
Egyptian monuments, at times as enemies, at others as mercenaries in 
the pay of the Pharaohs. Their wise men had cultivated the art of 
medicine, so that Homer knew the Egyptian physigians of the race of 
Peon. The fortunes of this family I have set forth in my last paper on 
the Tungus of Asia and the Denes of America. No name is more 
widespread in mythology and legendary history than that of the 
ancestral Tsochar, from the Trojan Teucer and the Greek Deucalion to 
the Tigil of Kamtschatka, and from the Polynesian Tangaloa to the 
