264 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VOL wae 
Aahpeti and the Thothmes-Rameses occupied the position of king of. 
kings, in a measure like that of the German Emperor, the subordinate 
kingdoms were practically independent. Of these kingdoms, the most 
ancient was that of the Horites of Zoan or Tanis in the Delta, whose 
rulers being expelled by the Hyksos in the end of the eighteenth 
century, took refuge in the neighbourhood of Thebes, whence they 
emerged in the beginning of the sixteenth century in the persons of the 
Thothmes-Rameses. Some time later than the beginning of the king- 
dom of Zoan, and probably about the same time, commenced the reign 
of the Ammonite line in Xois, and that of the Cherethite-Hittite-Khufu 
in Memphis. The first seems to have lasted till the time of the expul- 
sion of the Hyksos by Thothmes II., but the latter dynasty was expelled 
during the reign of Aahpeti, in the end of the eighteenth or the begin- 
ning of the seventeenth century, and became the ruling family in Assy- 
ria. Three kingdoms, probably contemporaneous in their origin, were 
the Ammono- Hittite, or dynasty of the Amen-em-hats, which arose in the 
Sethroitic name of the Delta, and passed on to Memphis, and finally to 
Thebes, where it became extinct by the marriage of its heiress to 
Thothmes II.; the Hamathite dynasty of the Hadads or Usertesens at 
Abydos, who worshipped their great ancestor Chepher, and disappeared 
in the time of Rameses III.; and the Kenezite dynasty of the Mentu- 
hoteps, which made a beginning about Phila, and afterwards moved 
down the Nile to Tell-el-Amarna. The Setis, who served as command- 
ers-in-chief for the Rameses and were connected with them by marriage, 
belonged to the latter dynasty, which disappeared with them. Thus 
there were at least six contemporary dynasties in Egypt during much of 
the early portion of its history, and there were great feudal families, like 
that of Mareshah or Meeris, that were little less than regal, whose names 
found their way into Manetho’s Pharaonic lists. 
But the task that I set out with was to shew that the League, which 
we call of the Iroquois, was an old Hittite League, dating back to the 
end of the nineteenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century B.C., 
and that at least three of its founders recorded in the Iroquois Book of 
Rites, have their record on the rocks of the Sinaitic peninsula. These 
are Odatshehte, Dekanawidah, and Atotarho, in the forms Achudzath, 
Dekanata, and Hadad-ezer. It remains to show that Job or Hiob, the 
original Hiawatha, gave name to a people at the same time. Mr. 
Forster's No. 5 proves this : 
No. XVIII. ma ku dzu nabe yo be no kita be ha ma shino 
kushi be 
