[A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille]@TWC D-Link bookA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder CHAPTER XVII 19/24
"They hate riches and all that, you know. Break a Jew's heart to hear of all that property wasted, and money going a-begging.
Not a bad idea, though, that of theirs about money. Too much money's a howwid baw, by Jove!" "Well," continued Oxenden, calmly resuming, and taking no notice of these interruptions, "I can give you word after word that More has mentioned which corresponds to a kindred Hebrew word in accordance with 'Grimm's Law.' For instance, Kosekin 'Op,' Hebrew 'Oph;' Kosekin 'Athon,' Hebrew 'Adon;' Kosekin 'Salon,' Hebrew 'Shalom.' They are more like Hebrew than Arabic, just as Anglo-Saxon words are more like Latin or Greek than Sanscrit." "Hurrah!" cried Melick, "we've got him to Sanscrit at last! Now, Oxenden, my boy, trot out the 'Hitopadesa,' the 'Megha Dhuta,' the 'Rig Veda.' Quote 'Beowulf' and Caedmon.
Gives us a little Zeno, and wind up with 'Lalla Rookh' in modern Persian." "So I conclude," said Oxenden, calmly, ignoring Melick, "that the Kosekin are a Semitic people.
Their complexion and their beards show them to be akin to the Caucasian race, and their language proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that they belong to the Semitic branch of that race.
It is impossible for an autochthonous people to have such a language." "But how," cried the doctor--"how in the name of wonder did they get to the South Pole ?" "Easily enough," interrupted Melick--"Shem landed there from Noah's ark, and left some of his children to colonize the country.
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