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continents, will not be surprised to find that well-known Iroquois 
scholar, the Abbé Cuoq, suggesting the relationship of the Iroquois 
with the wandering and barbarous Alans and Huns. Still less sur- 
prise should be experienced when the more cultured Aztecs of Mexico 
are connected with an ancient Old World civilization. Aztec history 
does not begin till the 11th century of our era, and even that of the 
Toltecs, who preceded the Aztecs, and were of the same or of an 
allied race, goes no farther back than the 8th. The period of their 
connection with Old World history as a displaced Asiatic people is 
thus too early to be accounted for by the invasions of the Mongols, 
but coincides with the eastern movements of the Khitan, who, after 
centuries of warfare on the borders of Siberia, disappeared from the 
historian’s view in 1123. It is certainly a coincidence that the 
Aztecs should claim to be of the noble race of the Citin, and that czé/z, 
the hare, or, in the plural, citin, should be the totem or heraldic 
device of their nation. 
Since I wrote the article on the Khitan Languages, in which I 
traced the Chinese Khitan backwards to central Siberia about the 
sources of the Yenisei, where, according to Malte Brun, the Tartars 
called their mounds Li Katei, or the tombs of the Cathayans, I have 
received from Mr. V1. Youferoff, of the Imperial Society of Geo- 
graphy at St. Petersburg, copies of the chief inscriptions from that 
region. These triumphantly confirmed my supposition that the 
Katei and the Khita or Hittites were the same people, by presenting 
characters occupying a somewhat intermediate position in form 
between the Hittite hieroglyphics and the more cursive script of our 
Mound Builders. The rude representations of animals and other 
natural objects accompanying some of the inscriptions are precisely 
of the type furnished by the Davenport Stone. One inscription, 
which I deciphered and the translation of which is now before the 
Imperial Society of Geography, relates the victory of Sekata, a 
Khitan monarch, the Sheketang of the Chinese hostorians, over two 
revolted princes or chiefs dwelling at Uta or Utasa in Siberia. As 
in the case of the Syrian Hittite inscriptions, I have translated the 
Siberian one by means of the Japanese, using the Basque, the Aztec, 
and other languages of the Khitan family, for confirmation. What- 
ever foreign influences may have done to modify the physical features, 
the character, language, religion, and arts of the Japanese, and, in 
lesser measure, of the Coreans, there can be no doubt that these are 
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