The lost tribes: of Israel which have given so much concern to many worthy individuals, aud. "which . have been found everywhere 1 , even among our own' k selves, have been in great danger of being discovered scattered through the Pacific Ocean, and indulging in cannibal habitß. The philological world of Berlin have been much disturbed: by rubbing of inscriptions from that mysterious seat of colossal stone figures, Eastern Island, These inscriptions, set out in good straight lines, look like the repetition of various 1 jatpKabetichl character's,'! bearing, some of them, a striking likeness to , later Hebrew, but. unto happily undecipherable,.!' The important' results to ; Ue obtained are, however, tyo longer in. expectation $$& Professor Huxley has solved., the inscriptions, which /might ( ;long. have .puzzled » the learned j world. . He has recognised the rubbings as impi'essions 'from "'moulds used by the Polynesians, in printing the patterns on the lapa cloth, the ancient./ire.ss , . of Tahiti and other islands. This accounts for the geometrical and;. th.e. regular production ..of.; details, which are not ideographs, hieroglyphs, or alphabetic symbols,'— -' ■ AthenteumViii u, ; /.. 7 ;,.' ;'.i' V : :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 104, 4 May 1871, Page 4
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