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256 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. é [Vou. VI. 
“The head of Kibeku, the conqueror of Syria, the powerful Yahdai.” 
This inscription is of great interest, from the fact that it connects the 
name Kibeku with the Zuzimite division of the great Hittite family. 
This name in geographical nomenclature is the Gibeah of the Hebrew, 
which, ending with the letter ayzz, would be pronounced Gibeag of 
Gibeg. Onthe 13th of September last, Mr. A. Cameron, president of the 
Summer School of Science for the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, wrote 
me from Yarmouth, N.S., as follows, referring first to my translation of 
the inscription on the famous Yarmouth stone: “ About three weeks ago, 
another graven stone was found near the shore, about a mile southwest 
of where the first one was found. The inscription is in.two lines. The 
upper line is the same as the old one. The lower line contains only 
three characters, YVH.” I give the nearest equivalents in Roman 
letters, which, as Hittite writing, read Kubeka. Katorats, the chief 
whose name figures on these two Yarmouth stones was, equally with 
the Yahdai of the eighteenth century B.C., a Kibeku or Kubeka, in 
Iroquois parlance, a Kuwega or Cayuga, and his tribe gave name to 
Quebec, before phonetic decay had deprived the Iroquois of their 
labials. Peter Dooyentate Clarke, in his history of the Wyandotts or 
Hurons, places the Senecas in the neighbourhood of the Quebec Hurons 
but the name Quebec and the legend of the second Yarmouth stone 
shew that the Kubeka or Cayugas must have been to the east of them. 
Quebec is thus really one of the oldest town names in the world. That 
Kera denotes Syria is evident from the hieroglyphic Hittite inscriptions. 
Yahdai appears once more in Mr. Forster’s 74, with more important 
historical connections. It reads as follows : 
No. VII. kishishima o no o no kita ma ra no ku kuno shi ki 
kishi shi ma no ku ku ta ku la shi ta ya ta ya be 
This ts: 
kiza shime on on Kita marane Kukuno saki 
engraved proclamation good good Kita overcome Kukuno lord 
kiza shime noku kudaku Lasada Yataya be 
engraved proclamation enemy shivers Lasada Yadaya under 
Put into English, it is: 
“Written notice: The excellent Hittites overcome the Lord 
of Kukano. Written notice: Lasada, under Yahdai, shivers 
the enemy.” 
The Kukano are the Sekenen-ras of the Egyptians, the old Horite rulers 
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