Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-01-21
". l NJ 8 m. 6 m. Tyr.
The Ten Tribes.

A German TRAVELLER, Herr Otto Ravsa!low
has started new theory cf the whereabouts {:
toe lost ten tribes. HIS notion is that The
Nor.h \ ncrican Indians ere detc ,ld ants of the
sabjacs of King Jerobo,m. This theory is
stated in work called American Sketche g."
and TIE substance Of i! is given in recent
number of the jewish Algemcine Zsitung,
rom which VIC extract the followiug:-
Herr RoVeuslaw's theory is based on Dds
sage 10 the 2i Book of Eza-s book of the
Apcc;aDhs-eut the accounts of which have
b,en referred to both by Josephus and by sever
al OF hs esrlg fs here, su,h ss Hertuliap, Glen
ems ct A',x,ndrla, &,. The passage is IS fo-
lows: andsr thou aeest another ps.c,ful
multitude: they are the ten tribes wb. were
taken iram tbs land u,o captivity 10 ths time
OF h Ho5hea, wh, N Shsluau- ser, king of Ass,ri,.
clired away captive. HIS took them aoross
tho waters, and they c.me to another land.
And thc7 totk cJucsal With each other, and r. =
solved to 20 10 distant lard. whtr, men ID
nevsr cWilt, 30 that they might hold fast to
tnelr oRo laws; aud they had to travel long
Rs7, Watch tock them one year and half"
Aooordlag TO The so,ount 10 the same book
the number of those wao thus left Media and
Assytla wns somewhere about 600 0OO They
seer TO hav. vailed from the Eu pirates to
The uorthnsss coast of Asia, and hsvlog crossed
behrIeR Srslts, reached the Continent of NCr b
amerlo'. 10 the c)urs, Of two thousand Years,
they S! read tro1 thu eX;reme n,rthwest cf the
New W. rid down sou b IS far as Cape Horn :;
and, therltJre, those whom Wa hav, hitherto
been accustomed to regard S. the aborigiues of
he NV Cot tlnen'. are wholly CT psrty The
d4scoudants OF the last tribes.
Toe ac;s BY which, according to Herr Reyanl-
low this theo!y;s supported sre as follows: The
AN? u?;icsu Indians ,lieve, like the Jew., 10 one
God, whom they call the Great Spirit. They
oaVe fss lVi's which corresp >od chronicle ,ic slIy
10 the jewish Easter. the Day Of Atonement,
snd the Fess. of Tsb rascles They build al
ttr', bnd ara divided ioro tribes, each of which
has Graud Saohem at its head. Thep, spsin,
their lew' respecting ablu i >ns. sacrifices. and
marriages are similar to those Of the jaws, and
20 dos their language resemble Hebrew. Ia
msny other respt cts. slso, there is a similarity
btwoen the ideas md CUSTOMS of both nations
rhe ludlsus worship Loo-,c ,htahoola. Sba,
which means the highest bau, f,ien, smut tt
dre-a wtri apparently made up of Hebrew
words.
Acc rliog to the same tu:hor, there are sill
races Of r ID Inoi,us 10 tn resslv atoms Of the
Western States of Mr. Amerc, which have
'absrus c!es like the one the Ijraj;es had 10 the
Dastr:. Ga the occasion of their harvest fest-
val, they sing If "heshya", the Messah of the
Jews. aud m c!rtsin other occ,sious they ch,nt
ky mrs to Eso, which is the i (God) of be
IL btews, They prooourc,, like the j avs be1
I'd C ion over the mcoD, cllled Cneat hallJan-
all, and their prayers generally are very sini-
lar TO those usual 10 Israel. 40 Indian bun,s-
mao, on leaving his wiswsm to 20 buotirg ,prc-
uouuces bessirg ard on his relu,n he throws
a piece Of the a,oh Of the deer into the IRE, ty
way of sncr6cs, utteriog benediclion as be
docs 60.
The most remarkable analogy between The
ri!es of the Jews and lhs Amer:olu I1di,us i.
that both forbeAr tasting the blood of killed at
imas, bat they ,bler pork, and est 20 fish that
is destitute Of visible scales. The Iodisns also
look on many apinss ss uucIeau, the same as
the Jews do. H RI R:veutlow quotes pu-
mertus other points 10 which the customs
of bath rncss c,inoide. Fur Instance, women
found to comnit adultery wers liable to bs ston-
ed to death in sight of all among iar ciert Jews,
aud similar tu"om preaai!s I'm ,nv the Iodaps
OF the Orncc) r Yer. in the West ladies'.