198 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



able notes regarding the Emim, Zuzim, &c., in the 

 second chapter of Deuteronomy, which may be re- 

 garded as a foot-note to the Toledoth of Genesis x. 

 These aborigines were invaded by men of different 

 types. First, we find in the monuments that the 

 Amorites of the Palestine hills were a fair people 

 with somewhat European features, like some of the 

 present populations of the Lebanon. When re- 

 turning over the Lebanon in 1884 we met a large 

 company of men with camels and donkeys carrying 

 merchandise. They were fair-complexioned and with 

 brown hair, and from their features I might have 

 supposed they were Scottish Highlanders. I was 

 told they were Druses, and they were evidently much 

 like, as are indeed many of the modern fellaheen of 

 the Palestine hills, the Amar as they are pictured in 

 Egypt. These white peoples, though reckoned in 

 the Bible as Hamites, may have had a mixture of 

 Aryan blood. It is to be noted here that the 

 Amorite chiefs, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, named 

 as confederate with Abraham, have non-Semitic 

 names. 



A later inroad was that of the Hittites, evidently 

 a people having affinity with the Philistines and 

 Egyptians, but whose chiefs and nobles seem to have 

 been of Tartar blood, like the modern Turks. The 

 names of their kings seem also to have been non- 

 Semitic. Later, the great westward migration of 

 Semitic peoples, to which that of Abraham himself 

 belongs, not only introduced the -Israelites but many 



