46]:--Stregnah, dna skoohtop.
These characters I have submitted to the inspection of a celebrated antiquarian, and it will be proved to the satisfaction of every one, in his next volume, what an immediate intercourse there must have been between the inhabitants of the moon and the ancient Scythians, which Scythians did not by any means inhabit a part of Russia, but the central part of Africa, as I can abundantly prove to my very learned and laborious friend.

The above words, written in our characters, are _Sregnah dna skoohtop_; that is, The Scythians are of heavenly origin.
The word _Sregnah_, which signifies _Scythians_, is compounded of _sreg_ or _sre_, whence our present English word sire, or sir: and _nah_, or _gnah_, knowledge, because the Scythians united the essentials of nobility and learning together: _dna_ signifies heaven, or belonging to the moon, from _duna_, who was anciently worshipped as goddess of that luminary.

And _skooh-top_ signifies the origin or beginning of anything, from _skoo_, the name used in the moon for a point in geometry, and _top_ or _htop_, vegetation.

These words are inscribed at this day upon a pyramid in the centre of Africa, nearly at the source of the river Niger; and if any one refuses his assent, he may go there to be convinced.
The emperor conducted me to his court amidst the admiration of his courtiers, and paid us every possible politeness that African magnificence could bestow.

He never presumed to proceed on any expedition without consulting us, and looking upon us as a species of superior beings, paid the greatest respect to our opinions.