288 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



knew in. his day as the Katarsei, and whose chief settlement was 

 Katara, now called Katiu-a, appearing about midway on the eastern 

 coast. *^ Beginning at the north, however, Ave find certain features 

 of Hyrcanian geography reproduced, in the Zamareni, with a place 

 Chamara, who appear a short distance south of the Saraceni, just as 

 Samariane and Syracene connect in Hyrcania. The Chaulothsei, 

 Bene Khalid or Gileadites, with the Agraei or Ezrites, are not far 

 off; while Madiana, farther south, affords another proof of Midianite 

 connection. On the Arabian Gulf of the Red Sea opposite Berenice 

 weve situated the Malichse, Dari-se, Ausara and Agra. Lower down 

 on the same side we meet with the Minsei, Mamala, Nagara or Agra, 

 and Amara. The JV of Nagara arises out of the nasal pronuncia- 

 tion of the initial ayin of Ezer, which is found in Arabic. But in 

 the Persian Gulf about Katura, and in a direct line with the home 

 of the Malichae and Darrss, other Agrsei or Gerrsei Si]ypear, together 

 with Asateni and Sata. In the south-east a galaxy of Zimrite' names 

 attest Midiatxite occupation. Such are Thamar, Sambracata, Omanitse, 

 Darrae and Acilla, to which may be added Masthala. Coming fur- 

 ther westward, but keeping to the southern coast, Hamirei in the 

 Smyrnophoros Regio commemorate Zimran. The Ascitse were the 

 descendants of Ishod; the Ausaritse of Ezer; and Massala was a 

 record of Mahalah. Omana Sinus, south of which Marmatha may 

 have been a reminiscence of Mamre, betrays Heman's posterity, and 

 Camacalum on the Sachalites Sinus may unite Chalcol with Eshcol. 

 This leads to the great region of the Homeritse, whom tradition has 

 already identified with the family of Keturah. Among them Theo- 

 phanes found the Amanitas, to whom he attributed a similar descent.*' 

 The rite of circumcision prevailing among these tribes tends to con- 

 firm their Abrahamic parentage.^" In the same region Burckhardt 

 found traces of the Omran Arabs, although their principal settlement 

 according to him was the northern tract in which we found the 

 Zamareni.^^ Omran is an Arabic form of Zimran, exhibiting the 

 same change as the Erse word Amhrmi has i^lready presented. - Sa- 

 catia, Mela Mons, Ocelis and Thuris in the land of the Homeritse, 



*8 Lenormant & Chevalier, ii. 2S9 seq. Jervis, Genesis Elucidated, 35S. 

 « Jervis, 359. 



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51 Notes on the. Bedawin, &c., 221. Another Stonehenge vras fuund by Chardin and other 

 travellers at Ujan in Persia : Sadik Isfahani, 9 note. Still another in Phosnicia is described by 

 Finn : Byeways in Palestine, 283. 



