Note 14 — Chapter XIII · ABOUT THE ZU-VENDI PEOPLE

There are twenty-two letters in the Phœnician alphabet (see Appendix, Maspero’s Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient, etc.) Unfortunately Mr Quatermain gives us no specimen of the Zu-Vendi writing, but what he here states seems to go a long way towards substantiating the theory advanced in the note on p. 139.—Editor.