Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-21
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A fine People who Were Forcibiy Drives
Ont NV the jews.

Dat by the jews.
On the occasion OF my frst visit To
Palestine was struck by the number
of blue-eyed, fair-haired children whom
I met with in the towns and villages,
more especially in the mountainous
narts OF the country. At the time
supposed them to be the descendants
NJ the Crusaders or of the other ma
tiyes of Northern Europe who found
their way to the Holy Land during the
Middle Ages.
But new light has recently been
thrown on the matter by the ethno-
logical observations made by Mr..
Flinders Petrie in Egypt The winter
before last Mr.. Petrie was commits
stoned by the British Association to
take casts and photographs OF tha
chronological types represented on thu
Egyptian monuments, and to note,
wherever it was possible, the color o.
the skin, eyes and hair. 1t was no
the first time. however, that notes OF
the kind had been taken.
Some years ago Osborn, a careful
observer, had noticed that in the sculpt
ures of Ramses II. at Abu-Simbel ''tht
Shasu of Kanana" were depicted with
blue ewes, and red hair, eyebrows and
| beard, and the Amaur with ''the eyei
blue, the eyebrows and beard red
| As ..the Shasu OF Kanana" lived little
to the south of Hebron, while the
| Amaur are the Amorites of the OLD
| Testament, it was clear that popula,
ton existed in Palestine in the four
teenth century before our era which
had all the characteristics OF the white
race. MIR. Petrie's observations have
abundantly verified his conclusion.
He finds that, on the walls OF &
Theban tomb, the Chief OF Kadesh or
the Orontes is painted with white
skin, and light red thrown hair. Kadesh
was the southern capital OF the Hit
tites, after their invasion of Syria, but
the Egyptian inscriptions describe II
as being sin the land OF Amaur;" and
that its chief must have been an
Amorite is shown by the fact that the
Hittites are depicted with yellow or
orange skins, their hair being black
and their eyes dark The physiognomy
of the Hittites and Amorites, more
over differed widely.
The Egyptian artists agree with the
native Hittite monuments in represents
ing the former with ugly protrusive
profile, and Mongoloid features, the
hair being arranged at the back of the
head in sort of ''pig-tail." The Amaur
or Amorites, on the other hand, are a
handsome people, tall and dolicho
cephalic, with large sub-aquiline noses,
and a short-pointed beard at the end OF
the chin. The defenders of "the fort
of Amaur" are represented as having
been burnt a light pink-red by the ac-
ton of the sun. Otherwise the skin is
white or "sallow." We learn, then,
from the ancient monuments of Egypt
that portion OF Palestine was occu-
pied by white race before its con
:, quest by the Israelites. And they fur.
ther inform US that this white race con.
tinued to exist in the country after the
. conquest. The physical characteris-
y tics of the captives taken by Shishak in
: the time of Rehoboam from the cities
:. Of Judah have Amorite and not Jewish
II features.
= There is nothing in common between
y them and the tribute-bearers of Jehu
. who are depicted on the black obelisl
from Nimroud, now in the British
. Museum, with faces of most typically
Jewish cast. In the tenth ceuturl
before our era, consequently. the bulk
of the population in the Southern part
q of Judea must have been of Amorits
~ origin. 1t is not wonderful, therefore
- as we find traces of the same popula
:, ton still surviving in Palestine. Their,
~ is no need Of explaining their existenc,
u by theory of their descent from tn,
ls Crusaders The survival of the an
" =. Gent white race of Palestine is par
10 allel to the survival of the ancien
. white race of Northern Africa, nov
- generally known among French writer
% under the name of Kabyles.
The Kabyles were at one time i'm
1s agined to be the descendants of tn,
=, : Fandals, but we now know that the
=. have inhabited the southern coast of tn
- Mediterranean since the later Neolithi
~ age. They are the Libyans of antiq
- uity, represented on the Egyptian
:. monuments, like the Amorites, will
~ white skins, blue eyes, and dolicho
. cephalic skulls, and similarly de
~ scribed by classical writer's. They ey
tended into Teneliffe and the Canar
re Islands, and their long-headed skull
in have been disinterred from the dol
l. mems of Northern Africa. To tn
ly traveller who sees them for the first tim
s the Kabyles offer striking appea,
r. ance. Their clear white skins. COY
Is cred with freckles, and thei light blu
t, eyes differ from all around them. =
- .t.S..~e
he A certaia strain of nobility {
IS character is needed to enable one q
&c see without envy the better fortune q
Sc MS nelghbor, even though that neigh