82 MAJOR CONDER ON THE CANAANITES. 
remains are discovered. Such is the fate all beginners encounter, 
and one which I announced for my own work when I published 
“ Altaic Hieroglyphs” in 1887; but 1 also feel assured that when 
such scholars attempt the detailed examination of the combinations 
of emblems, which I carried out before forming an opinion as to the 
language, they will recognise that the work was not done hastily or in 
an arbitrary manner, but was a natural result of special examination, 
and that many of my translations will be maintained. As yet, I 
have met with only fragmentary criticisms of minor details. 
