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other ethnologists— attest their former presence. For them 
to sail past Britain to Friesland for a British commodity 
would be as absurd as for a British ship in quest of tea to 
sail past China to Jesso. 
One name occurring in the book might, we think, have 
been utilised by Dr. Ottema. The Priestess Adela says — 
“ I refused to be Volcksmoeder because I wished to marry 
Apol.” We think that, with a little trouble and a few bold 
conjectures, this Apol might be identified with Apollo, even 
though the “ God of life, and poetry, and light ” is generally 
represented as having been a bachelor. 
Neptune — we beg pardon, Cousin Teunis- — had, it seems, 
a cousin and fellow-adventurer, one Inka. On one of their 
expeditions to the Mediterranean, after touching at Kadik 
(Cadiz), then a Frisian colony, they disagreed. “ Teunis 
wished to sail through the Straits to the Mediterranean Sea, 
and enter the service of the rich Egyptian king, as he had 
done before, but Inka said that he had had enough of all 
those Finda’s people. Inka thought that perhaps some 
high-lying part of Atland might remain as an island, where 
he and his people might live in peace. As the two cousins 
could not agree, Teunis planted a red flag on the shore and 
Inka a blue flag. Every man could choose which he pleased, 
and to their astonishment the greater part of the Finns and 
Magyars followed Inka, who had objected to serve the kings 
of Finda’s people. When they had counted the people, and 
divided the ships accordingly, the fleet separated. We 
shall hear of Teunis afterwards, but nothing more of Inka.” 
We fear that Dr. Ottema has here, again, lost an oppor- 
tunity. Is it not self-evident — to the enthusiastic at least— 
that Inka must have sailed away to the west, and discovered 
South America, where he founded the Peruvian Empire, 
which his descendants long ruled under the name of the 
Incas ? Is it not, however, strange that so maritime a 
people as the Frisians, 180 years after the submergence of 
Atland, are represented as still in doubt whether any part of 
that region had remained as an island ? 
We further learn that Marseilles and Tyre were originally 
Frisian colonies, as well as Cadiz and Athens. From the 
latter they were ultimately expelled by Cecrops, a Frisio- 
Egyptian half-breed, represented as “ bright of eye, clear of 
brain, and enlightened of mind.” This leads us to one of 
the strangest passages in the entire work : — “ Geert, the 
Frisian priestess of Athens, departed with the best of Frya’s 
sons and seven times twelve ships. Soon after they had 
left the harbour they fell in with at least thirty ships coming 
