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67. Going furthor than lie does* Mr. Forster says “that this name of Cadmus
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can bo traced through K adorn ah or Kudinas,’* which
• Ifcrt I. Section VI.
lattor form, lio states, to bo a truly Arabic idiomatic
one, and quotes it, through Molo, through Eusebius, and Alexander Polyhistor
who gives tho twclvo sons of Abraham (Ishmacl) by
r«Ming tho allualon to Ilorodolaa.
his Eygptiau wife, and again that the only “direct
notico of tho Arabs as among tho early pcoplcrs of Europe to bo found among
tho olassio writers occurs in Strabo,” who in his account of tho peopling of
Eubooa off tho coast of Boootin reckons as tho first inhabitants a colony of
Arabs, who had accompanied Cadmus into Greece.” This statement carries
within itself marks of its authenticity, sinco all tho circumstances of tho
ease attest tho corrcotnoss of Strabo’s information, &c., &c. lie then continues,
. that Oadmus is simply tho Greek form of Itedemah, which is rendered Kedinah
in tho LXX, and Cadmos by JoRopliius, and tho Ishmaclito tribo of Kedemah,
wo liavo already scon, wad Seated in tho very locality assigned on independent
grounds as thocradlo of tho Phooniciau Cadmus, tho namesake, and it may justly
bo iLferred tho youngest son of Ishmacl.
68. ITo further goes on to clench his argument with an Arab tradition, also
proving tho nalioual consanguinity botween tho Pclcponcsiaus and Boeotians
and tho Arabs (Zebeydi Ishmaclitcs).
69. To roturn, however, without being sure that Cyrus ruled theso islands,
wo know that Barius did ns they formed a part of his 14th satrapy, and wero
used by him as a penal settlement (the jockey King could scarcely have invent­
ed a better).
. GO. Tho stono may therefore) woll belong to this period of Persian rule, or
again it may simply have found its way down from Assyria. Tho latter being tho
most likely, for the cuneiform seems to mo to difFer from tho Aclucmcnian that
I have seen, and the more so that no signs aro used under that form of writing.
Of courso an expert would settle tho question at oncc.f
Gl. With regard to tho tumuli, we arc standing on surer ground and cannot
.go far wrong. Whothcr somo of theso may not bo tho remains of tho Phoenician
temples noticed by Androsthoncs it would bo hard to say. Without doubt those
nearest to tho villngo of Ali have had buildings on tho top of them formed
of shaped blocks of sandstono. I cannot mention ali the places on theso
islands which probably contaiu buried buildings, but content myself with
drawing attention to one or two of tho most prominent.
G2. On leaving the town of Manamch, tho western road passing through
lines of dato gardens, lands one in the Willayct-i-Kadim or Bilad-i-Kadim, the
anciout city, where, probably from tiruo immemorial, building has been piled
upon building; bo this how it may, wo go a little further and find ourselves near
t M«drW..i.Abu.Zciii»in aired* the niosque of tho minarots.f Here sovoral mounds
deteribed and a.«i M « landmark for rising white and shrubloss, attract attention, .but
•hip. miking th. hxrbour. leaving theso again and inclining to tl.o north of
west, passing tho Portuguese fort on the sea-hoard still massive and imposing
in its decay, wo coino upon a lino of high sandhills, chuincd together facing the
northern sea, at tho distance of a mile or so from tho beach, near tho villages
of Barboora and Shirebi. Theso I walked over, but found only ouo outlying

t I Lara ilnco writing the gurnet In tl.o text of thin report been favored with tho Irmialntiout of the Imeriplion
bJ tbo kindncit of 8ir 11. Ibiwlinaon hltoxclf.
X It would acer thnt tho pnlra branch hm oomo connection with Phoenician, but
1 Iiato not worked till* out thoroughly n« jet. Tho pnhn brnnch U «t tho lop
of tho inicriptton which muit be read from right to left.
Thera la ona letter about which dir 11. Rawlluaon i« not quite aatUflod, aie., •
Of palace tha
f v + I I □ \ Tho writing I- Ifjnrntlo Hnbvlnulan
lllrooyaa. ( /O I I 1__ 1 1 cuneiform, Ittinugna win not n King*
' I | | J probably nil Arab Sheikh.
Tank, Ood, Iha, of, atrvaol
No explanation la offered aa to tho u«o to which autdi alonca wero put- U
may po.allily liaro been merely n atamp fur brleka, or it may havo Icon in or oo
Almriatl (ha
the tomb of lltia aerrnut of the Ood Tuiak.— E. L. D.
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