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in the various pub-ications of Dr. Terrien" de Lacouperle, especially in a most interesting. paper entitled "The Old Babylonian Characters and Their Chinese Derivatives," which appented in the Babylonian and Oriental Record for March, 1888.

Accadians were who peopled the plains of upper parts of the face, for a fish (w), which Babylonia. Whence come, then, the ideas con- represents the creature, and a number of others, tained in those written characters which point of which are turned on end. Those inte to a nomadic origin of the race? There charac-rested in this subject will find it fully treated of ters tell a very plain stery. A people who picture the idea of beauty by an idengram.composed of pants meaning "a large sheep," or who represent right," "equity," by one which means "m sheep," or who convey the idea of "to nourish " by a compound character whose parta signify "to eat sheep," or the idea of discussion by r combination of symbols meaning "to talk abou my sheep," with a host of other examples which might be quoted, were evidently at one time or other a race of shepherds. And this dual character exactly accords with the history of the carly Turanian inhabitants of Babylonia...

We find also the prehistoric history of China divided into ten periods, consisting altogether of 432,000 years, during which thirteen heavenly Kings and eleven terrestrial Kings sat on the

throne.

Now, it is a remarkable fact that the same divisions and total length of years are attributed to Babylonia in the early records of that country, The tenth period in the Babylonian record begins with the reign of Na-khunte, whose name bears a striking resemblance to the Nal-hwangil who, according to the great historian Stema-Tsien, was the first of the Chinese sovereigns, Nakbente was, as we know, the King of Sustang who conquered Babylonia in a295 B.C., and 1 was about this period that the Chinese left thel habilst in Babylonia and migrated to Chins Hence the prominence of the Chinese Na-khunte in the annals of the Flowery Land.

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But the resemblances between the Accadian and Chinese have been held to go further than the written character. The languages themselves, it has been observed, bear a family likeness to each other, and various scholar, notably Drs. Edkins and De Lacouperfe, bare from time to time given their reasons for supposing that the two languages are related Both, it has been MONDAY NEXT AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. acknowledged, bear strong evidence of belonging to the Ugro-Finnish stock, and it is obvious not only that the original structure of the twe languages is identical, but that it is even possible to compare a number of Accadian with Chinese words. This most interesting branch of the inquiry has lately been pursued by Mr. C. J: Ball, who has been rewarded for his labors by being able to announce one of the most remark able philological discoveries of a dern times. His attention was first attracted to the subject by, observing a curious parallelism of sound between certain terms in the Babylonian syllabaries and synonymous terms in Chinese. By chance he began with words having an initial in Chineas, and remembering the well-known philological fact that an initial e wear down in course of time to a y, he de- termined to try whether by substituting for the initial y in words in the modera Mandarin dialect of China he could get "formas recogniz ably related to corresponding Accadian, terms, Accordingly," he says, "I wrote the Chinese ye afgbt, with a and got the Accadian ge night." This by itself may, of course, have been one of those curious coincidences in lans gange with which weare all familiar. But as he pursued his inquiries he found that the result was uniform in all cases, and that it was possible to find recognizably related terms with ag initial in Accadian to synonymous terms with a initial to Chinese, A farther fact which con- firmed him in the truth of this evidence was, that a number of the words which he found bad undergone this change in modern Chinese pre- serve the g form in Japan, where the pronuncia- tion of the sixth century is still maintained. For example, we have in Accadian gu, "to speak,"! becoming in the Mandarin dialect pu and in Japanico-Chinese go. In the same way "silver" la gu, yin, gin, in the three pronunciations, etc.

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One of the most striking features of the culture possessed by the Babylonians was their know. ledge of astronomy. Indeed, their country has been called the birthplace of that science. We know, also, that their systematized and recorded astrology went back to a predigions antiquity; that they were able to foretell eclipses; that they observed the stars in their courses, and that they built astronomical observatories for that

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In connection with words with the g initial in Accadian, Mr. Bail offers an explanation of the name and symbol for the word "God," both of which have hitherto been regarded as inexplic able. The symbol is the eight-pointed star, which Dr. Terrien de Lacouperle indicated some time ago as being the probable origin of the Chinese character Ti, having the same meaning, and which has always presented an insuperable difficulty to palæographers, and the sound is dingira. This Mr. Ball considers to be composed of di, "to shine" and gira, "heaven." And "the Accadian for God, therefore, is the shining one of heaven,' which explains why the ideogram is a star," Both these roots exist in Chinese, and we have therefore, by the aid of Accadian, an explanation of a puzzle which, with We should Baturally expect, there-out it, probably would have never been made fore, that a like knowledge would be possessed plain, by the Chinese, and such wa find to have been the case. Nal Whangil, we are told, built an observatory from which to observe the move- ments of the heavenly bodies, and in the annals of Yad and Shun, we meet with references which show that in those days also the Chinese were no mean atironcmers. Like the Babylonians, they recognized five planets besides the sun and the moon, all of which, with the exception of Mercury, they called by the same names as thore current in Babylonia.

purpose,

Jupiter, which was known to the Chaldeans a "The Planet, and by the Phoenicians as Gad, or "Gerd Fortune was called by the Chinean "The One" and "Good Fortune." were the names "King" and "Criminal"

Continuing his researches, Mr. Ball has been able to lay down a series of phonetic laws, under the terms of which he has converted into Accadian almost the entire Chinese dictionary. The series of papers in which he has announced

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now appearing in the. "Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology," and is headed "The New Accadian." We have seen that others had recognized a relationship between the two languages, but it has been reserved for Mr. Ball to point out that they are practically the same tongue. Accadian, then, may be con- sidered to be in its relation to Chinese what Sanskrit is to the Indo-European languages, and

"CATTERTHUN," Mr. Ball is in 'the same position as Sir William

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"King" and mander Saturn was knowD RE "Righteousness." Venus was christened "Queer of the Defenses of Heaven" by the B bylonians, and bore the title among the Chinese of Soldiets Waiting."

Not only were different colors appropriated to the planets in both countries, but most careful study was made of the portents to be derived from their relative positions. Superstition in all lands has attributed benign and malevolent influences to the planets, and it is therefore unsafe to base any argument on the occurrence of similar superstitious beliefs on the suject in Babylonia and China; but it is at the same tim remarkable that the earliest Chinese list of patents which we have, should be almos identical with these current among the Babylonians, and that many of these should be foreign both in matter and in manner to Chines ideas. In the same way the portents derived from the actions of animals, more especially of dogs, bear a marked similarity,

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This linguistic discovery offers additional and very conclusive explanation of the fact that whether we cast our eyes over the land of Chian, investigate the science of her people, inquire in their temples, or mix with them in their house- are fordiby reminded of that great holds, we center of civilisation In Babylonia from which all the wisdom of the world has proceeded. For- tunately the secrets of that prison house are being revealed gradually, and no more can it be said that ·

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By the aid of astronomy Naf Whang-tilearned, we are told, to rule the varied year. In accordance with the Babylonian prexdent he made the four sens to consist of 360 days, balance the and added an intercalaty month surplus time. He established a calendar of twelve months and a cycle of twelve years, and ordained that the new year should begin in the third month after the winter solstice. According to present usage the Cbinere commonly number their months and apply names only to the firs and last months of the year; but the oldest dictionaries tell us that in the distant past the months bad different names, all of which, though they have been happily preserved, have become unintelligible to the people. The editor of the Urh ya, the most famous of the ancient diction- aries, efter recording them in order, adds, in a "The meanings to be attached to these different names of the months are unintelligible, ST. JOHN and have been lost. I, therefore, do not discuss them." But by the light of the Accadian calendar It is possible in explain some few of them. For example, by the Accadians the fifth month was known at Dhe dhegar "fire making fire, and

note:

by the Chinese an. Has, hight the ninth months was respectively Yanyansa, "thick clouds" (reminding us of the Chinese Yun-), and Huen, dark the tenth month, tuddu, "the cave of the rising sun," and Yang, "bright," "the sun," "the day" the eleventh month, "the malediction of rain.” and Xu, “ crime" a failure ;" and the twelfth month," the land of mists," and Tsu,"heavy dew, or rain,"

But besides the knowledge of astronomy the Chipete brought with them into China an ac quaintance with the art of writing. In the oldest forms of many of their characters are to be seen reflections of the ancient cruciform symbols which were current among the Tura- alan inhabitants in Babylonis, and which were adopted by the Semitic conquerers who after. ward took possession of the land. These characters were originally written in borizontal Iines, but for some unexplained reason it subsc quently became customary to write them in columns, and with this change of form thei came also the habit of turning some of the wider hieroglyphic characters up on end to make thems nge more conveniently in the columns. In modern Chinese we see the result of this in such characters as those for the eya_{wuh), which was originally the drawing of an obligse full eye, fog" w`minister (sh'an), which "ropiostats" tog

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The Bed-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably. furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Rooms, and accommodation generally will be found equal to the best. Hotels in the Far East. The Table D'Hote is supplied with every luxury in season, and the cuisine is in exper-TWO GOOD ROOMS, with Bath Room, in enced hands.

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the Cain Road. Rent moderate. Splendid View of the Harbour,

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Hongkong, 14th July, 1890,

Manager.

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Hongkong, sgrå August, 17ga,

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No. 3, MORRISON HILL

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G. C. ANDERSON, 13, Praya Central,

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G. C. ANDERSON,

Prays Centrale 3rd May, 1890,

$833,333-33- $318,000.00

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Lou Tao SHUN, Esq.

LO YEUE MOON, Esq.

MANAGER-HO AMEL

MARINE RISKS on GOODS, G, taken

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HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST, Hongkong, 17th December, 1886, [1081

CAPTAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, INLAND SEA and JAPAN COAST PILOTI

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"Hongkong, Sib Apsil, 1890,

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