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[B. A. E. 



many islands in the Atlantic." His ar- 

 gument, if such it can be called, is inco- 

 herent and fantastic in the extreme. The 

 theory is probably better known to 

 Americans through the writings of Don- 

 nelly (Atlantis, the Antediluvian World) , 

 who undertakes to prove the case by 

 modern scientific methods, and locates 

 the Atlantis of Plato as an island opposite 

 the mouth of the Mediterranean, a rem- 

 nant of the lost continent. The mere 

 statementof afew of the postulateswhich 

 Donnelly endeavors to prove is a sufh- 

 cient characterization, if not refutation, 

 of his theory: 



( 1 ) That Atlantis was the region where 

 man first rose from a state of barl;)arism 

 to civilization. (2) That its inhabi- 

 tants became, in the course of ages, 

 a populous and mighty nation, from 

 whose overflowings the shores of the Gulf 

 of Mexico, the Mississippi r., the x\mazon, 

 the Pacific coast of South America, the 

 Mediterranean, the w. coast of Europe 

 and Africa, the Baltic, the Black sea, and 

 the Caspian were populated by civilizedna- 

 tions. (3) That it was the true antediluvian 

 world; the Garden of Eden; the Gardens 

 of the Hesperides; the Elysian Fields; 

 the Gardens of Alcinous; the Mesam- 

 phalos; the Olympos; the Asgard of the 

 traditions of the ancient nations, repre- 

 senting a universal memory of a great 

 land where early mankind dwelt for 

 ages in peace and happiness. (4) That 

 the oldest colony formed by the At- 

 lanteans was probably in Egypt, whose 

 civilization was a reproduction of that 

 of the Atlantic island. (5) That the 

 Phenician alphabet, parent of all European 

 alphabets, was derived from an Atlantis 

 alphabet, which was also conveyed from 

 Atlantis to the ]\Iayas of Central America. 



(6) That Atlantis was the original seat 

 of the Aryan or Indo-European family of 

 nations, as well as of the Semitic peoples, 

 and possibly also of the Turanian races. 



(7) That Atlantis perished in a terrible 

 convulsion of nature, in which the whole 

 island sank into the ocean with nearly 

 all its inhabitants. (8) That a few per- 

 sons escaped in ships and on rafts, and 

 carried to the nations e. and w. the 

 tidings of the appalling catastrophe, 

 which has survived to our own time in 

 the Flood and Deluge legends of the dif- 

 erent nations of the old and new worlds. 



Among modern scholars there are very 

 few who regard Atlantis in any other 

 light than as a myth. See Winsor, Nar- 

 rative and Critical History of America, i, 

 141, 1884, for an excellent summary of the 

 subject and for many references to the 

 literature. The term Atlantic (ocean) is 

 not derived from Atlantis, but from the 

 Atlas mts. in n. Africa. (h. w. h. ) 



Atlatl. See Throning slick. 



Atlklaktl {Alqla'xL). A Bellacoola vil- 

 lage where the present mission is situ- 

 ated, on the N. side of Bellacoola r., near 

 its mouth, British Columbia. It was one 

 of the 8 villages called Nuhalk. — Boas in 

 Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 48, 1898. 



Atlkuina( ^I-^^X-MHia ) . A Tlauitsis village 

 on the N. side of Cracroft id., Brit. Col. — 

 Dawson in Can. Geol. Surv., map, 1887. 



Atnik. A village of the Sidarumiut 

 Eskimo near Pt Belcher, Alaska; pop. 

 34 in 1890. 



Ataniek.— Tikhmenief (1861) quoted by Baker, 

 Geog. Dk't. Alaska, 1901. ' Atinikq.— Zagoskin, 

 De.scr. Russ. Poss. Am., pt, 1, 74, 1847. Atnik.— 

 Baker, op. eit. Attanak. — 11th Census, Alaska, 

 map, 1.S93. A'tune. — Murdoch In 9th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 44, 1892. Kuik.— Zagoskin, op. eit. 



Atnuk. An Eskimo village of the 

 Kaviagmiut tribe at Darby cape, Alaska; 

 pop. 20 in 1880, 34 in 1890. 

 Atnikmioute.— Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 5th 

 s., XXI, map, 18.50. Atnikmut. — Zagoskir^, Descr. 

 Russ. Poss. Am., pt. I, 73, 1847. Atnuk.— Nelson in 

 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899. 



Atoko. The extinct Crane clan of the 

 Chna (Snake) phratrv of the Hopi. 

 A-to-co.-Bourke, Snake Dance, 117,1884. Atoko 

 ■winwu.— Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 583, 1901 

 iii'in-wn = 'clan '). — A'-to-ko -wun-wu. — Fewkes in 

 Am. Anthrop., vn, 403. 1894 (irun-trii ^clan). 



Atotarho. See Watliatotarho. 



Atotonilco (from Nahuatl: atl 'water,' 

 totonilli 'warm.' — Buelna). A former 

 Tepehuane pueblo in lat. 25° 30^, long. 

 107°, E. Sinaloa, Mexico. It was the seat 

 of the mission of San Juan. 

 San Juan Atotonilco. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 324, 

 1804. 



Atotonilco. A former Tepehuane pueblo 

 in lat. 24° 35^ long. 104° 10^ s. e. Du- 

 rango, Mexico. It was the seat of the 

 mission of San Andres. 



San Andres Atotonilco. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 318, 1864. 



Atquanachuke. A tribe or band residing 

 early in the 17th century in s. or cen- 

 tral New Jersey. All references to them 

 are indefinite. Smith, who did not yisit 

 them, says they were on the seacoast 

 beyond the mountains northward from 

 Chesapeake bay, and spoke a language 

 different from that of the Powhatan, 

 Conestoga, Tocwogh, and Cuscarawaoc. 

 Most of the early authorities put them in 

 the same general locality, but Shea, evi- 

 dently misled by the order in which Smith 

 associates this name with names of e. shore 

 tribes, says they lived in 1633 on the e. 

 shore of Maryland and were allies of the 

 Conestoga. (.i. m. ) 



Aquaauchuques.— Keane in Stanford, Compend., 

 .501, 1878. Aquamachukes.— Map en. 1614 in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., 1, 1856. Aquamachuques. — De Laet, 

 Novum Crbis. 72, 1633. Aquanachukes. — Dutch 

 map (1621) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., i, 1856. 

 Atquanachuck.— Simons in Smith (1629), Virginia, 

 T, 183, repr. 1819. Atquanachukes.— Ibid. ,120. At- 

 quanachuks. — Ibid. .183. Atquanahuckes. — De Laet, 

 Hist. Nouv. Monde, 93, 1640. Atquinachunks, — 

 Shea, Cath. Miss., 486, 185.5. 



Atrakwaye (probably 'at the place of 

 the sun,' or ' south ' ). A palisaded town 

 of the Conestoga, situated in 1608 on the 



