1898-99.] THE OLDEST WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS, 
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on 
In readable order it becomes: 
bushi to sadzushi meshi-dzushi tsumeshita koi 
soldier band to send ambassador pressed desire 
Kishima kumi meshidzushi 
Kishima league ambassador 
Temeni obe Kishima bushi \ 
Temeni lord Kishima soldier 
to Ataa bahita 
band Ataa pledged 
Freely, it may be read: (To) the desire of the ambassador (who) 
pressed Kishima to send a band of soldiers, Kishima, the lord of Temeni, 
pledged the ambassador of the League a band of soldiers (for) Ataa.” 
What he would not do for the king of Xois, who was an Ammonite 
and a foreigner, Husham expressed his willingness to do for Ataa, 
Who was this? He was in some respects the greatest man of his day. 
the Ati of the Egyptian monuments, who led the Aadtous of the First 
Sallier Papyrus wrongly translated “the impure” or “the strangers.” 
Othoes and Achthoes are names given him by Manetho. The Arabian 
historians call him Ad, and his posterity Adites, men of great stature 
and violence, relatives of the Amalekites, and conquerors of Egypt. 
The Kenite chronicler (1 Chronicles ii.47) calls him Jahdai or Yahdai, 
perhaps the old Japanese yataz, the bold. He was the son of one Gazez 
in the Achuzamite or Zuzim division of the Hittites, who, in Abraham’s 
time dwelt in the country later occupied by the Ammonites, where 
Chedorlaomer smote them. This Ati or Yahdai married Zobebah, the 
daughter of Coz, and, after much fighting, died, if all accounts be true, 
by treachery, leaving behind him an unborn son by her, in addition to 
six sons of man’s estate, of whom the eldest, called by the chronicler 
Regem, was the famous Sargon, king of Agade. As George Smith 
makes Agade the same as Akkad, we may find in the name of Yahdai 
the origin of the Babylonian ancient name. The death of Yahdai must 
have taken place in 1724 or 1723 B.C., so that Brugsch’s date of 3266 
for his ascension to the throne as Ati, and that of 2456 for the same 
as Amen-em-hat I., are grossly at fault. 
Other inscriptions contain the name of Yahdai. One is Mr. Forster’s 
102 from Wady Guene. Its legend is: 
No. VI. ki-be-ku ku be ta be ki ke ra shi la ki 
ma ya da ya 
or: Kibeku kobe tabeki Kera sa alki 
Kibeku head subduer Syria of pow 
ma Yadaya. 
ful Yahdat. 
