MALLERY. ] FRAUDULENT PICTOGRAPHS. 767 
that they may have been placed in their present order to simulate the 
appearance of some connected narrative or communication, which could 
readily be done in the same manner as the words of a dictionary could 
be cut out and pasted in some intelligent sequence. 
Fic, 1289.—Fraudulent pictograph. 
Among the curiosities of literature in connection with the interpre- 
tation of pictographs may be mentioned La Vérité sur le Livre des 
Sauvages, par L’Abbé Em. Domenech, Paris, 1861, and Researches into 
the Lost Histories of America, by W. 8. Blacket, London and Phila- 
delphia, 1884. 
The following remarks of Dr. Edkins (h) are also in point: 
The early Jesuits were accustomed to interpret Chinese characters on the wildest 
principles. They detected religious mysteries in the most unexpected situations. 
Kwei ‘‘treacherous,” is written with Kieu “nine,” and above it one of the cover- 
ing radicals, Fig. 1290a. This, then, was Satan at the 
head of the nine ranks of angels. The character, same gily Z 
Fig., b, ’hwen ‘‘a boat,” was believed to contain an tag IX 
allusion to the deluge. On the left side is the ark and on 
the right are the signs for eight and for persons. The ‘q@ b 
day for this mode of explaining the Chinese characters Fic. 1290.—Chinese characters. 
has gone by. 
