1844.] of the Syrian Christians and Jeios of Malabar. 135 



N. B. This document is the connecting link between the Is*, and 

 the Illrd. it proves the Jewish and Christian Lords to have been 

 friends and the first Dynasty to have been prior to the other. Al- 

 though the two remaining pages cannot now be deciphered, it remains 

 for us to add what can be made out of the Hebrew signatures. 



oirnn urns an on inn dpi 



□inn »na Wod pnv mmn 



□inn oup ormK uman 

 EDinn M rmm» uinarr 



Much herein is altogether inexplicable, and after we 

 once know that these are signatures of a Hamush, or Hamish 

 (Arab. " courageous/') and an Ishaq Mikael, Delegates (or 

 Phariseans ?), of an Abraham, who has another office or 

 surname, and of a fourth party, probably all witnesses on 

 Anjuwannam's side, we may leave them for the present. I 

 may add that the late Mr. Buchanan was certainly mistaken 

 in his opinion of these Hebrew characters.* They are very 

 similar to the present Hebrew alphabet and " Abraham" 

 especially can be read on the first yiew. 



III. DOCUMENT. 

 III. The Jewish document, although the oldest is the 

 best written, the language with one exception (S^O^tugTV^ 

 old Tamil, apparently of a time when the Tamil and Ma- 

 la yalam were still one undivided language, with a few dialec- 

 tical peculiarities in each province. Though repeatedly copied 

 and referred to since the time of Anquetil du Perron, no 

 translation of it has as yet fully succeeded, because the chief 

 points such as the meaning of Anjuwannam, of vidu-peru etc. 

 could only be satisfactorily settled by the comparison of the 

 Syrian tables. Also in many minor points the comparison of 

 the 3 documents was found to throw sufficient light upon 



* Christian Researches p. 140. 



