34 Some conjectures on the progress of [Jan. 



features remarkable, strongly defined, nose high and prominent — 

 Asiatics. 



4. (Ditto ditto) — appear with the above as allies — their ornament 

 and dress, a tunic, shield, bow, and club, only discernable. 



5. The Rebo — very formidable enemies, — numerous — Asiatics — 

 eyes blue, nose aquiline, beard small and red — dress rich with many 

 ornaments — inhabit a country of northern Asia very distant from 

 Egypt, and far more temperate in climate ; weapon, the bow — Parthians ? 



6. The Fount — bring tribute of leopard, baboon, ape, ostrich eggs 

 and feathers, ebony, ivory, &c. : they are Nubians (Bunsen). 



7. The Shari — Assyrians? or Arabians? nose prominent, cheek- 

 bones high, beard large — robes loose and handsome — well armed, and 

 own fortified towns, which after defeat in the field they defend bravely 

 — the name points to Assyria. 



8. The Toersha — a maritime people — connection with Egypt un- 

 defined — appear as conquered. 



9. The Mashoash — Asiatics as well as No. 8, — differ in dress, but 

 not in feature from them. 



10. — The Kufa — inhabit a part of Asia considerably to the north 

 of Palestine — long-haired, dresses rich, boots of cloth or leather highly 

 ornamented — a rich people — bring tribute in the precious metals, with 

 knives, beads, a little ivory, leathern bottles, and bronze or porcelain 

 cups — their hair in tresses, descends to the middle of the back with 

 projecting curls on the top of the head. 



1 1 . The Kheta or Sheta — a remarkable people whose troops were 

 highly disciplined — skilled in fortification even to the use of the double 

 fosse — use chariots, and have some cavalry, — seemed to consist of two 

 distinct tribes — Scythians according to Champollion. 



12. Other nations — who do not fall within our enquiry, being negro 

 tribes, or apparently Canaanitish nations, &c. &c. 



I must however, from among the miscellaneous classification of the 

 above, except for special notice one race, the Ethiopian, whose habitat 

 to the south of Egypt is designated markedly by the character of the 

 tribute they bring ; the long-horned ox, still extant in Abyssinia, 

 occurs represented in such fashion as to induce assurance that the 

 breed was peculiar, even at this early age, to one portion of the land ; 

 while, to mark the locality of this nation still more plainly, they 



