238 REV. G. E. WHITE, ON A VISIT TO THE 
Odyssey.” Moreover, in the pointed shoes we seem to have a link 
supplied between these Caphtorim and the Hittites; in which 
case we have a confirmation of Holy Scripture which shows us 
that these people were, anciently, related to each other. 
There is another curious point. We are told twice here, I 
think, that there has been found a donble-headed eagle inscribed 
on the rocks. The Tell-Amarna tablets and the inscriptions 
found in the ancient Hittite empire show us that the Hittites 
spoke a language similar to Turkish—an Altai language. The 
Turks originally, as we know, inhabited the Altai mountains; 
and a vast number of people speaking a similar language to the 
Turks are settled round the Altai mountains, and the Turkomans 
of Turkestan are held to belong to the same ethnic branch. We 
know that the Tartars, as they have been called in later times, 
overran Russia in the early and middle ages, and held sway over 
Russia for several centuries. Must the double-headed eagle, then, 
which the Russians now have as their symbol, be derived from 
the Turko-Tartars and these Hittites, who lived on the borders of 
Cappadocia ?P 
In regard to musical instruments that have been referred to, it 
is very interesting to find that these ancient people used musical 
instruments. We used to be told that the Egyptians only played 
the cistra, which was something like a baby’s rattle; but after- 
wards there were discovered harps with fourteen strings, which 
goes to confirm the story of Miriam and the Israelitish women 
praising the Lord with musical instruments. I see in the paper 
the lituus is called a musical instrument. I always thought it 
was a crook which the angurs used for divining in some way. 
I daresay that is merely a misprint. 
There is a statement here, speaking of the figures found carved 
on the rock at Eyuk, “one figure has either a long tassel on a 
close-fitting cap, or hair depending in a closely-tied queue. 
Hither supposition favours a Mongol origin for the Hittites, for 
the first resembles the custom of the Turks; the second that of 
Chinamen.” Of course we have not seen those pictures so we 
cannot hope to discriminate; but I think it is a mistake to talk of 
the Turks and Chinamen as if they belonged to the same race. 
Philologists do not, so far as I know, ever classify the Chinese 
language with the Turkish. So far as I know Chinamen have a 
still more differing type of language. 
