regard as their primal or subsequent homes or stopping-places; but in these Easter Island inscriptions such primary and secondary homes of the various clans and tribes are noticed, and referred to frequently. The totemic-system, or crest-name of families or clans, as it is found in North America, in Asia, or in Europe among the Plantagenets = the Yellow-brooms, the Colonas = the Columns or Pillars, the Columbs = the Pigeons, and many others, is also found among the South-Western Americans, and is generally used and written in these Easter Island inscriptions, where we find the Chimborazos = a clan from the snowy mountains, the Atahuallpas = the Turkey-cocks, the Tula or Tolla or Tulapin = the Turtles, the Rapa, the Cha-Rapa and others. They spoke and wrote of their enemies as the bad serpents or snakes, and of their wise men or their teachers as the wise or the good or the feathered snakes; while birds and feathers became or rather remained and retained in these inscriptions the signification of emblems, or came to signify chiefs, princes, or rulers, or the spirits of the dead, or similar noble objects. The Sun, Moon, stars, rainbow, and other things in the sky symbolized the spirits of their dead ancestors and the deities. These totemic crests and symbolic names found in these inscriptions are traceable back step by step through all the stations or stopping-places of the clans and tribes from the southwestern parts into the central, and then to North America, and through that continent again back further to Asia: through all these distant and long wanderings we can trace the same names of the families. Sometimes they translate them from one dialect or language to another; thus Hindi becomes Indi, Sindi, Hindu, Yinti, Inti, Inta, Inka, Inca, Yndi, &c., as we follow these Turanian and other families from high Asia to its eastern coasts, and then across the islands to North America, thence to Central and thence to South-Western America. In all these regions these names bore relation to the sun and the sky-families. While over the similar routes and lands another family and its descendants called themselves Ra, La, Rama, Lama, Rai, Lai, Kai, Khai, Tai, Thai, Ti, Li, Line, Ray, Raymi, &c. This was also a sun and sky-family, as expressed in ancient and other languages, from high Asia across to North, to Central, and to South America, and also is found through the Eastern Archipelago and the Pacific Ocean islands. When we carefully examine the ancient histories as they were written in the most early times, or the traditions as told from fathers to sons, we shall find that these names are not accidental coincidences, but are the same names, retained with these modifications in the different changes of dialect and modes of speech as these people, after leaving their old homes, moved from station to station in their march onwards during their migrations^__their intercrossings with the other peoples they encountered leading to these changed forms of words or proper names. Another name for a country and the people thereform that we find in these inscriptions,