The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-06

were free from these objections. Darius
and %erxes were father and son; their
names commenced with different letters
aud they seemed about the right length.
In all these conjectures and conclusions
he was correct, and the first step in the
solution of the problem was made" He
was followed by II. Rask. a Danish trav-
eler and philoiogist. who made consider
able advances beyond the results OF Gro
tefena. After Rask came Lassen of Ger
many and after Lassen were many other
continental scholars and Rawlinson and
others. of England. Rawlinson was then
n young man In the military service of
the East India Company. and had been
stationed at Kermanshah, In Persia Near
that city Is mountain which rises to a
height of LOO feet. and while exploring
this mountain he discovered great In
scription cut upon the rock 500 feet from
the base, He did not know of the discov-
cries and conclusions of the German
scholars, and he began Investigations on
his own account. Without carrying the
history OF these discoveries further. II
may be said that Rawlinson succeeded In
solving the entire problem of eunelform
writing. And now that many phslologists
are familiar with this kind of ancient
writing and that the inscriptions, with
the TRANSACTIONS. are reproduced In popu-
lar books. II seems tolerable easy.
W
Picture writing IL a far simpler and
certainly a much older manner Of re-
cordins events. There Is no definite list
OF characters employed In hieroglyphics,
but all sorts OF animals all sorts OF in
animate objects, With sometimes words
added are used as occasion requires. Ex-
anples Of this kind OF writing have been
found in every part 81 the world, and
while the yarc most numerous in eoun-
.a..4 ~
these examples were formed. they are
by no means limited 20 such countries.
They are found In the ruined temples and
sepulcherR of Egypt and In the tombs OF
Jerusalem. Likewise they are seen on the
ruins Of walls and monuments In Rome
and the sxhumed houses OF Pompeii are
fun OF them. In modern times biography
Is another name for hieroglyphics. and the
iAeographic manner Of writing stIil OBJ
tains exclusively in Japan and China
The highest development Of picture writ
ing is found I'm the system % hierag,yph
les II, use IN Mexico and IN Central Amer
tea. BY means 81 Il the Mexicans re-
corded titles 10 property and the tudg
uAls ana civil aud religious calendars, re-
corded titles to property and the jug
r,euts Of courts asscsscf taxes or tribute,
defined genealOgies. etc, When Cortes
landed fun accounts OF him. his men.
pquipmentS and - TAR AH ne lh'llAAteE
them By word or action, Of hts purpose.
were thus recorded and sent 10 Monte
yuma. The ecelcsiastlcs who followed the
army acquainted themselves with this
system and adanted It 10 the purposes
~ converting the natives. Later the
Franciscans generally adopted the system
In their teachings among the Mexioans.
In North America, too. have been found
nunaberless examples Of picture writing.
Around the borders Of the Great lakes,
where the Indians mostly had their VII
lagos. some 81 the most interesting ~
them were found by Schoolcraft. In one
OF his reports 30 the war department he
describes and interprets record o; the
kind on a pine tree, on the right are
two canoes. with a catfish in one OF them
and fabulous animal. known as the cop
per-tailed bear. In The other. On the LETT
are a bear and six catfish. Schoo.craft
OWNED the sense OF the picture 10 be
that two hunters whose names were Cop
per-tail Bear and Catfish went on hunt
ing expedition in their canoes and took
a bear and six catfish.
Another record found by another explor-
er Is also a hunting record made upon
birch bark by an Onbway. BY a line ex-
tending from left 70 right. with an I'M