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THE ALPHABET
number like this is not conventional, and can easily correspond to the truth). The date of this event (twelfth-thirteenth century A.D.) is worked out upon the traditional list of the local "kings." However, even this tradition does not explain the origin of the script.
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Fig. 70-Easter Island writing
1. Signatures of the native chiefs on the treaties with the Spaniards in 1770. 2-3, Specimens of kohau-rongo-ronge tablets.
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Connections with other Scripts
An astonishing thesis has been suggested by G. de Hevesy; according to this Hungarian scholar, the Easter Island script appears to be connected with the Indus Valley script, and both seem to have derived from an unknown system of writing, of an intermediate country, such as New
