1898-99.] THE OLDEST WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS 265 
In order : 
Maku dzu nabe Yobe no Kita bai-ma shone 
Maku head lord Yobe of Kita elector son 
Kusabe 
Kusabe 
In English: “ Kusabe, chief lord of Maku, son of the elector of the 
Kita of Yobe.” 
This inscription is from Wady Sittere. I have been in doubt 
whether to call the daz-ma, or “ giver of yea,” an elector or a councillor. 
Kusabe appears again in Mr. Forster’s 96 from Wady Mokkateb. 
No. XIX. Kisa shi me shi noka ta be ta ba shita to do ku sabe 
In order : 
Kiza shime Sankata be tadashita todo Kusabe 
engraved notice Sangata under righteous commander Kusabe 
In English: “ Written notice: the righteous commander Kusabe 
under Sangata.” Sagata or Sangata is a name associated in India and 
Siberia, as well as in Sinai, with the Raba Khita, who held the Yoba 
Kita in subjection as the Ammonites held their brothers, the Moabites. 
Who the righteous Kusabe was I do not know, but a more complete 
reading of the Sinaitic inscriptions may clear up the difficulty. He 
may be a Hittite of the Yoba family named after Joseph, the prime 
minister of Aahpeti or Amen-em-hat III., and inheriting his righteous- 
ness with his name. Job’s three friends were Hittites; Eliphaz the 
Temanite related to Husham; Bildad the Shuchite or Sakya related to 
Laadah and Mareshah; and Zophar the Naamathite, a Tsocharite or 
Tokari of the Beno Kita whom Anub the Ammonite drove out of 
Panopolis. None of them were League founders. Job or Hiob was 
Hiawatha of the Kaniengas or Mohawks; Achudzath or Odatshehte 
was the Oneida or Eleut representative, and Bildad may have been his 
son; Dekanata or Dekanawidah is made a Kanienga or an Onondaga 
in [roqucis tradition, but was probably Techinnah, the father of Ir 
Nachash (1 Chronicles iv. 12), and must have been a very old man; 
Atotarho was Ben-Hadad or Hadad-Ezer of the Hamathites or Onon- 
dagas. There remain the Cayugas and the Senecas. Of both tribes 
the inscriptions furnish indications, and those of the Kubeku or Cayugas 
-are numerous, but their Iroquois League founder Akahenyonk defies 
identification, unless he be Aznoth, the brother of Chesulloth or Chisloth, 
whe were sons of the Kubeku Sheber (1 Chronicles ii. 48) after whom 
