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subsequently in the same book the young man Nilus informs Apol- 

 lonius that he had heard from his father, who was captain of the ship 

 which the Egyptians had used to send to India, " that the Ethiopians 

 were Indian colonists, and retained their forefather's discipline and 

 the memory of their ancient origin." It is noteworthy too that 

 in Syncellus' list of the Egyptian dynasties, the 8th, 9th, 10th 

 and 11th kings of the 18th dynasty are given as a dynasty of the 

 Ethiopian kings from the river Indus. The above references show 

 how familiar the idea of a connection between Africa and India 

 was in antiquity, and the general belief that India was the cradle 

 of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization more recently, especially 

 since the Nineveh discoveries, Assyria seems to be preferred, but 

 as yet without the same balance of probability. Returning for a 

 moment to Apollonius, it is mentioned in his life that he met a 

 man who had been wandering for 7 months amongst the moun- 

 tains in the country of the Gymnosophists without obtaining abso- 

 lution for a murder he had committed. The man killed by him 

 was a descendant of the Egyptian Thamus, who had formerly laid 

 waste the country of the Gymnosophists, because they had resisted 

 him in introducing novelties. Can this Thamus be the Tamo- 

 vatsa spoken of in the Hindu legend, and supposed by Lieutenant 

 Wilford to be the conqueror of the Manethonian King Timaus. 



V. 



The antiquity of the Eastern salutation salaam is shown by an 

 epitaph of Meleager to be found at page 37 of Brunck's Analecta, 

 Vol. I. The inscription addresses the passer-by, and concludes 

 thus, 



If thou art a Syrian say Selom, but if a Phoenician 

 Say Audonis, if a Greek X ai 2 e - 

 In the Anthology " selom' ' is with great probability corrected 

 into salam (<mXa/t), and no doubt allied with the Hebrew selah. 

 " Audonis" is printed (with an asterisk) Naidios, but, like all 

 punic words, is quite uncertain. 



VI. 



When divine Spenser sings 



" Of God's high praise, and of his sweet love's teen" 

 the modern reader who frequently finds the last word in the Faery 

 Queen and in the poetry of that epoch, on referring to the gloesery, 

 Vol. xx. o. s. Vol. iv. k. s. 



