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even rufous oxen, were sacrificed, after their expulsion, 

 in detestation of their dominion. They may have been 

 the parent stock of the Beni Koreish, since the Seyads, 

 who in Asia still pride themselves as descendants of 

 the prophet, stain their beards to a red colour; and 

 finally, clans are likewise still found scattered inland 

 of the northern African shores, where they are taken 

 to be remnants of the Vandals, who were indeed a 

 branch of the same stem that came round by the west 

 end of the Mediterranean. 



Finnic Scythae, Rauwolf 's Trusci, may have passed 

 to Abyssinia with the first Arabian tribes, and influ- 

 enced the building of cities of wolf priests, such as was 

 the capital city Tegulet ; for who but a people of 

 northern origin would have thought of wolf gods and 

 lupine priests, particularly in Africa, where no true 

 wolf is as yet proved to exist ; for the Ounch of 

 Egyptian Sycopolis, Siout of the Prsenestine Mosaic, 

 surely cannot be the insignificant Chakal or Canis 

 Anthus.* 



dants, it is still almost wholly national among, several 

 mixed tribes of northern Russia. If Assyria once was held 

 by red-haired men, they most assuredly originated from 

 people beyond the Caspian. 



* This worship was well known in the south of Europe, 

 where northern tribes had penetrated. Finns, Etruscans, 

 or Pelasgians, most likely instituted the Hirpi, wolf priests, 

 at Soracte, the Luperci at Rome, the most ancient sacerdo- 

 tal order in the city. Such, again, were the priests of La- 

 tona at Delphi. They existed at Thebes in Egypt, and 

 were in all cases funereal ministers. They had, it is pro- 

 bable, mysteries which were the origin of the power to 



