“I regard the comparison of words, when carefully and cautiously conducted, an important help to the determination of lingual affinities; and it will be found, I think, that the following vocabularies bear independent testimony in their own degree, to the same result at which we arrived by grammatical comparison-viz., that the Dravidian idioms exhibit traces of an ancient, deep-seated connection with Prae-Sanskrit,-the assumed archaic mother-tongue of the Indo-European family,-whilst at the same time the traces they exhibit of relationship to the languages of the Scythian group, especially to the Ugrian tongues, are, on the whole, closer, more distinctive, and more essential.”¹

     “Whatever words, therefore, might appear to be the common property of Hebrew and the Dravidian languages, would have to be regarded either as indicating an ancient, prae-historic intermixture or association of the Dravidians with the Semitic race, or rather perhaps, as constituting traces of the original oneness of the speech of the Noachidae.”²

     “Not only was there commercial intercourse between the Tamil country and the Mesopotamian valley, but there is some evidence that the trade of South India extended to Egypt in the III millenium B.C. says W. H.Schoff. “thousands of years before the emergence of the Greeks from savagery............ Egypt and the nations of Ancient India came into being, and a commercial system was developed for the interchange of products within those limits, having its centre of exchange near the head of the Persian gulf. The peoples of that region, the various Arab tribes and more especially those ancestors of the Phoenicians, the mysterious Red Men, were the active carriers or intermediaries. The growth of civilization in India created an active merchant marine, trading to the Euphrates and Africa, and eastwards we know not whither. The Arab merchants, apparently, tolerated the presence of Indian traders in Africa but reserved for themselves the commerce within

1.Ibid p.565
2.Ibid.p.606