The record-union., 1895-04-25

earliest Inhabitants, so far as history ca
be clearly traced. At all events, this was
the opinion of the Egyptian priests-in
other words, of the learned class-at the
time OF Herodotus. OF the wide distribu-
ton of the Thrakian stock, the Father of
History AYERS that ''they are the largest
of all races, except the population of In
Ola; and II they were under one ruler, or
were acting together, they would, in my
opinion, be lnvincible and by far the
most powerful of all nations" This vast
race was, of old, famed, on both sides of
the HelIespoint, as brewers and consul
mers of beer.
When Aenophen was entertained at the
famous banquet of Seuthes, on the Ihra-
khan Chersonese, near the Darnanelles,
all the table manners and customs he OBJ
served had the clearest Teutonic mark.
Even the separate tables for each person
were there, which Tacitus reports were
IN use among the Germans of his time.
Ihe peculiar way of drinking together,
and kind of mail proof" by standing
up and tossing off the whole contents of
the norm and then spilling the last drops,
are strangely suggestive OF customs still
prevalent IN Germany to-day.
a smile lnvOluntarily steals over the
reader OF old classical lore when he finds
Dloskorldes, Greek doctor from Kill
kIa, describing so very correctly the in
beer, both on the constitution in general
and as regards that special after effect of
lnt0xlcatlon, which in German is called
katzenjammer.
Going from east to west, beer is found
not only among the Thrakiau stock, but
also among the Gauls and the Iberians
in Spain.
Thrakians, as well as their more or less
close kInsmen, the Skyths, whose major
lty at least had racial affinity with the
lormer, often Waged war with the Egyp-
tIans. AT the same time, in true Teuto-
nc, lansquenet manner, Thrakiaus
served as mercenaries in the Egyptian
armies. In the same way the Thrakians,
though often at war with the Greeks, also
became much intermiXed with them. In
fact, wherever one looks, he finds that
misunderstanding Thrakian race all over
the East-ln Europe, in Asia, as we'll az
IN Africa. Even so far back as the TINA
OF the Trojan war there existed, if Strabo
can be trusted, village in Egypt called
Troy. 1t was, be says, an ancient set
tlement of the captive projans who had
accompanied MeneIaus and settled there.
Now, does 1t not stand to reason that a
people go given to their own national
beverage, as the Ihrakians were, must
have continued its use in the Nile cOun-
try, and that the very words for that
brew should have got from the Thrakian
language both in the Egyptian and Helle-
mic tongue?
But if the Phrygo- -Thrakians were the
earlier Inhabitants of Egypt, it would
certainly not be difficult to account for
| beer in that country, even in the most
distant antiquity within our ken.
Psammitich, or Psamatik, was himself
not an Egyptian Of pure stock. He was
of half Libyan-that is, probably, semi
IhrakIan-OrIgln. HIS face is Of an
Aryan, or even distinctly German type,
especially in the nose, while his son Neko
looks like true Egyptian. Psammitich,
after having been eXiled, returned to the
throne by the military OF lOnian Greeks
and karian Ihrakiaus. 1t was his son
NekO who began the first canal between
the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, con-
trary to the wish of the priests, who
stopped the work by means of an oracle,
to the effect that he was working for a
barbarian"-that is, facilitating the con-
quest by a foreign race. Neko also
brought about the first circumnavigation
of Africa by Carthagenians.
The Oldest Egyptian statues have pro-
nounced Aryau type, and the probabiI-
ity, amounting to a LOleTable certainty, is,
that IN earliest Egypt there was ruling
caste Of Aryan, Tnrakian, connection.
Princes Of a darker-skinned race after
ward sat on the Egyptian throne. Yet
Ayran blood always came in afresh now
anu Lueus Ilsu6I llGSG hiDEs LOOK wives
from a Whitc-skiuned, iair-haired stock,
or they themselves belonged to clearer
type by more or less distant kiuship. 1t
! is, for Instance, a curious fact that the
mummy OF Rameses II. Sestura tSesos-
tris), whom some Egyptoiogists would
identity with the Pharaoh OF the Oppres-
sion of the Jews, and whose features are
not the typical Egyptian ones, has Ueeu
found TO bave had very fine, almost
silken, long yellow hair.
Going back 10 the earlier time of King
khu-en- Aten, 1t is learned that his moth
er, Thii, Til or Taia, who came from a
foreign land, and whose profile is a beau
tiful one, had a fair complexion, blue
eyes, tl8Xen hair and rosy cheeks. She
is stated to have come from the north
country In MIR. Boscawen's opinion
she was a Circassian from the neighbOr-
hood of Lake Van. Even if some parts
of y Orthern Africa were meant by the
north country" there would be no diff
Guilty in matching her physical descrip-
tion among the Thrakian race, which was
partly spread also over that region.
OF the high intellectual gifts of Thra-
| khan stock and OF its kinsmen, the Sky
THAN race, the aucients have great deal
to say. From Herodotos, from Strabou,
| from Plinius AMI others one hears how
many important inventions were made
! by men of Thrakian (Lydian, Phrygian,
! Mysian, harian) and also of Skythian
origin.