s, and official registrars of events, such as we
find to have accompanied the sovereigns of Assyria and Babylon.**
These chiefs were accustomed to send from time to time a present to the
Pharaoh, which the latter was pleased to regard as a tribute,*** or
they would offer, perhaps, one of their daughters in marriage to the
king at Thebes, and after the marriage show themselves anxious to
maintain good faith with their son-in-law.

* Halevy asserts that the Khati were Semites, and bases his
assertion on materials of the Assyrian period. Thes Khati,
absorbed in Syria by the Semites, with whom they were
blended, appear to have been by origin a non-Semitic people.

** A letter from the King of the Khati to the Pharaoh
Amenothes IV. is written in cuneiform writing and in a
Semitic language. It has been thought that other documents,
drawn up in a non-Semitic language and coming from Mitanni
and Arzapi, contain a dialect of the Hittite speech or that
language itself. A "writer of books," attached to the person
of the Hittite King Khatusaru, is named amongst the dead
found on the field of battle at Qodshu.

*** It is thus perhaps we must understand the mention of
tribute from the Khati in the _Annals of Thutmosis III._, 1.
26, in the year XXXIII., also in the year XL. One of the Tel
el-Amarna letters refers to presents of this kind, which the
King of Khati addresses to Amenothes IV. to celebrate his
enthronement, and to ask him to maintain with himself the
traditional good relations of their two families.

They had, moreover, commercial relations with Egypt, and furnished it
with cattle, chariots, and those splendid Cappadocian horses whose breed
was celebrated down to the Greek period.* They were already, indeed,
people of consideration; their territory was so extensive that the
contemporaries of Thutmosis III. called them the Greater Khati; and the
epithet "vile," which the chancellors of the Pharaohs added to their
name, only shows by its virulence the impression which they had produced
upon the mind of their adversaries.**

* The horses of the Khati were called _abari_, strong,
vigorous, as also their bulls. The King of Alasia, while
offering to Amenothes III. a profitable speculation, advises
him to have nothing to do with the King of the Khati or with
the King of Sangar, and thus furnishes proof tha