The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

too PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

black-complexioned ”’ and “‘ demons of darkness ’’ who lived with their cattle in caves. They were presumably of the smallish-statured, dark, long-headed “ Dravidian ”’ tribes of Indo-Persia, akin to the Iberian type, and represented by the present-day nomadic Yuruk and Gipsy tribes of Van and the adjoining region of Armenia', as opposed to the modern ‘“‘ Armenians’ in that region, who are one of the intruding round-headed Semitic races which swept into Asia Minor in later times, making it a medley of diverse races.

The westward line of migration, in the Stone Age period, of these primitive hordes from this early centre at Lake Van, when scarcity of food and pressure of over-population set them “ hunger-marching,” appears to be indicated, I think, by a more or less continuous chain of their ethnic name left along the trail of their movements from Lake Van westward, through Asia Minor to the Dardanelles and Bosphorus, and across Europe to Alban or Britain, (see map). This line of ‘‘ Van” and ‘ Khaldis” or ‘‘ Galatia’’ names extends along the Upper Euphrates to the Halys Valley of Cappadocia, to Galatia and along the “ Vindia’’ hilis to Phrygia and the old ‘* Phrygian Hellespont’ and Bosphorus, and across those straits along the Danube to Vienna and Austrian Galicia to Fin-land and the southern shores of the Baltic and westwards to Iberia and Iberian Galicia and Gaul, and thence to the British Isles.

Remains of an interesting survival of the warrens of these primitive cave-dwelling Vans are found still tenanted at the present day, on this westward route at )easa (modern Hassa) to the west of the crossing of the Halys River (Turkish, Kizil Irmak) and south west of Czesarea (or Kaisarie), in the south west of Cappadocia, on the ancient trade route to the sea through the Cilician Gates of the Taurus.? Here in the great plain, studded with cliffs of soft dry volcanic rock, an area of “‘ about fifty miles each way ”’ is honeycombed with countless caves and subterranean branching burrows, resembling generally the “ Picts’ houses’ and the so-called,

See on these tribes Prof, PF. v. Luschan, Harly Tithabiiants of Westeri Asia in JRAI, 1911, 228, 241. 7M.H.A., 167, etc.