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thern Asia and Europe. The same forms that prevail over a great 
part o: the American continent, somewhat disguised vet easily recog- 
nizable, are found in Japan and in Siberia, in the Caucasus and in 
Biscay. 
Some time ago I alluded to a passage in the Paschal Chronicle in 
which the Dardanians of the Troad are referred to as Hittites, and 
since then Professor Sayce has seen reason for connecting the whole 
Trojan family with that ancient and illustrious people. Strabo tells 
us that at Hamaxitus in the Troad the Teucri, near relations of the 
Dardani, consecrated a temple to Apollo Smintheus as a memorial of 
the destruction of their bow-strings and other leathern articles by an 
army of rats or mice. The same story is told by Herodotus of the 
Assyrian army, opposed by the Egyptian Sethos, whose name, being 
the equivalent of Sheth, is truly Hittite. This same story lives in 
America among the Utes of the Paduca or Shoshonese family, as 
related by Professor Powell, and among the Muskogees, as told by 
Dr. Brinton. Hamaxitus, the Trojan town where the legend was 
localized, was in all probability a transported Hittite Hamath, for in 
the form Hamaxia it occurs in the peculiarly Hittite country Cilicia, 
where Cetii dwelt in ancient times, and where Hittite kings held 
limited swayfin the days of Rome’s supremacy. The Scythic Ham- 
axoeci very probably bore no closer relation to the chariot or Hamaxa 
than the Muskogees do to musk. These words Hamaxitus, Hamaxia, 
and Hamaxoeci designated a tribe, sub-tribe or caste, which originally 
had its chief representatives in the Syrian Hamath. They were 
scribes, the most likely people to preserve and hand down traditions 
of the past, the Amoxoaquis of the Mexicans, and the Amantas of the 
Peruvians. Through them this legend, and many others which recall 
old world stories, have found a resting-place on the American conti- 
nent. Many writers on comparative mythology have been led to 
connect American tribes with Aryans and Semites by failing to recog- 
nize what Accadian studies have fully established, that the Turanians 
were the instructors in mythology and in many other things of these 
more highly favoured divisions of the human race. 
The decipherment of the Hittite and Siberian inscriptions by the 
Aztec is but the first step ia the solution of problems relating to 
ancient Old World populations, which are supposed either to have 
been exterminated or to have lost their independent existence. And 
the superior purity of the Aztec language as preserved by a literary 
