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Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 51

fN\\ « 1^ Jr ** ml tit J A TV. § M i fA VU •** Jim CvJLw ffflM / I Vwfr A RECENTLY DISCOVERED FRAGMENT OF MOABITE STONE. The liieroglyphics on this tablet have been somewhat difficult to decipher, owing to the peculiar formation of the characters, but the following translation is one which -will be accepted as being fairly correct : — 1. — Now again in the last days of the 12. — "Kttmoveb Anelvus" and certain 21. — Manner of ways Dokt-drgibb had reign of Eldiirs and church- of >>hul» sojourned boldly advocated whatever he 2. —King Dik —Thapremyah, the receiver of BOuth to a place called believed ... many g'fts, who was as a father 13.— Fir-skirk and with crafty persua- 22.— t0 be trite and needful to be uttered . 3 -Unto the deUdhs only, of course, so Sl °" « ho^ ed how there were many sin- and If the scribe of thig £ronikM aaw long as the elcktah* were as children .. "c™ (political and otherwise) how this t man »7 . 14.— at the capital and y«une men in OJ , ii.ii. , .„ .v. U u tOh T, , , , * .- • Hedoff-isis .... who sorely needed a 24,-who was not at all pleased with the 4.-whohadbut lately paced certain wise jj 5 ._ S tbong MAHN ....to help them with- ?V n *?-j"" ODO D * • fe;'/* i iv* (?) men in seats higher up than some gtand <MltoiMi and that...... celebrated in Pahnng-bdhts (not bank \ s.— Scribes and Pharseers (Fdilurs) IG.—Dokt-deoibb, 'frae Aberdeen (there'B 24.— and had but lately waged war with cared about, cauld kail in Aberdeen), was the opponents to the G.-who took unto himself the Pdhtpholio 17.— Ohn liman to keep them from 25 — Bi-b'inskttuU among (whom there O-pheduoashun, and showed going down to Destruction and I, was little to pik-anchfa) 7.- Deter-minashun to run the wlwl-blu- ' the scribe of this kromikul, wept much 26.— was sore distreas-ed which many and m-nsho I at the wickedness of that city even I also understood to be only 8. — who was even at this time thinking 18. — and some ofishult arose from their seats ahem 1 how to supply Jon-Bui, with bntchahs- and protested, while others.. .. among 27. — Natural .. But ai in times pahst .. meat (scheme not yet patented) and '< whom was •• many were called to make 9.— had called unto his suppotahs and 19.— Bi-ladums (not of Waterloo) coun- 28.— Sacrifices, even now others also .. .. opponknts to assemble in the house of selled his going away, and one, even were called ...and many in the 10— Babl-on where great upheavals a learned Ddktdr of Scripture which 29.— Congregeshun praised Dokt-UUGIBb... were daily looked f0r.... it came to pass saith somewhere ...but there were others when told H._ that a voice came up out of the 20.—" Call thou no man a fool," said he there was much for him to do and Wilderness (Wellington on the school would be a oreat fool if he did not go less maps) ...unto the revrund Dokt-UR- would break up and showed 30.— payh for it ...they smiled and winked oibb saying what great evilly with Wftnh ci but said not much.