178 THE SHEPHEED KINGS OF EGYPT. 



It is tiresome to be compelled continually to explain and defend 

 one's mode of procedure in connection with any discovery ; but as 

 there are many who, granting much of what I have already stated, 

 will refuse to listen to more satisfactoiy evidence for ethnical 

 identity, because it u.nites sacred and profane narratives or records, 

 and embraces the antiquities of a great part of the civilized world in 

 its comparison, I find it necessary again to state as briefly as possible 

 the grounds on which my inductive argument proceeds, and the 

 reasons which justify its mode of procedure. These grounds are a3 

 follow : 



I. In regard to the Bible. — That although, in the postdiluvian 

 period of which it treats, it deals principally with the history of the 

 Israelites and their progenitors, it nowhere ignores surrounding 

 peoples and Gentile families with whom they came into contact in 

 Palestine and other lands; that it gives genuine historical notices of 

 these, aiid, at times, genealogies more or less complete, such as those 

 of the Horites ; that it expressly asserts the Egyptian origin or 

 derivation of certain nations inhabiting Palestine, as the Philistines 

 and Caphtorim ; that it mentions peoples as inhabiting Palestine 

 who have been proved to be of Japhetic or Indo-European origin, 

 e.g. the Cherethites or Cretans ; that it indicates the presence in 

 Palestine of many nationalities as late, at least, as the time of David, 

 which are not of Israelitish origin, and which are not necessarily 

 Hamitic or Shemitic, e.g. the captains or chief men of David's 

 army ; that the first chapters of the Eirst Book of Chronicles contain 

 many Gentile genealogies, giving presumptive evidence that most of 

 these genealogies are Gentile ; that the line of Asshur, the father of 

 Tekoa, there mentioned, exhibits clear relationship with the Philis- 

 tine stock ; that the geographical names of the Bible, designating 

 places in Philistia and in the whole of Palestine are, as Dr. Hyde 

 Clarke has shewn, equally the property of the classical areas of 

 Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, &c. ; that it affords no evidence, but 

 rather the contrary, of the Japhetic or Indo-European families 

 having passed beyond the bounds of the region with which its early 

 history is concerned. 



II. In regard to Egyptian history. — That, spite of the records 

 which have been handed down from antiquity, the ancient monuments 

 recently deci23hered, and the vast amount of labour expended upon the 

 elucidation of both of these, the history of Egypt is almost a terra incog- 



