PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 411 



their kinsmen, tlie Milesians of Moladali, tlie Pelethites of Japhleti, 

 and the Kharu or Geshurites of the North, dreAV sword and bow 

 against those who, like themselves, worshipped the names of their 

 ancestral gods, An-i'a and Atlior.^^ Neither the Pharaohs who warred 

 with them, nor the artists who inscribed in stone the story of their 

 enmity and defeat, thought any more than the historians of to-day, 

 probably, of the former glories of the Ionic race, or deemed it worth 

 while to cast a glance at the imperishable traces of its old dominion, 

 extending from western Aboukir to the furthermost verge of Arabia 

 Petrsea, and from Heliopolis to Hermonthis in the south. They 

 had learned their Egyptian lesson, which so many great peoples had 

 to learn ; they had done their woi'k in this old historic land ; and 

 now, with strength unimpaired, they were to go forth in many com- 

 panies, to carry into regions less favoured the blessings of a newer 

 civilization. Into these new countries it has been my task, and is 

 my intention in this paper, to follow them. But, in so doing, I shall 

 not, at least as yet, enter upon the history of a later period than that 

 of which I have already treated. The tracks of the lonians must 

 be marked by the recurrence, in various mythologies and geographical 

 areas, of the same names, facts and connections, with slight vaiiations 

 and a few additional items of information, as we have already identi- 

 fied with their history in the land of Egypt. 



The following Tables exhibit the families of Onam, as given in 

 Chronicles, with their probable connections, and the Egyptian equi- 

 valents, historical and geographical, which have been obtained for 

 them : — 



I. 

 Jerachmeel = Atarah = Shobal. 



liayn. Onam. 



Jamin. Shammai. Jadag. 



Jediael. Nadab. Abisliur=AbLhail = -4TO?no«. Jether. Jonathan. 



Bilhaii. Seled. Appaim. Ahban. Molid. Coz. Peleth. Zaza, 



Shaharaim. Islii. Harum. Anub. Zohehah. daughter =;*S'/ia/iaraM?i. 



Sheslian. Aharhel. Elpaal. 



Eber. Misliam. Shamed, 

 founders of Ono in Palestine. 



'' Kenrick, ii. 221. 

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