Harold Tom Wilkins (1891-1959) wrote on a range of controversial subjects, from hidden treasure to UFO’s[361][362] to Atlantis[363][364]. He was of the opinion that if the Americas had not been the home of Atlantis it had at least been populated by refugees from there, but offers little hard evidence to support this contention. Wilkins gives a lot of attention to the inscriptions in a variety of unidentified scripts that have been found in both North and South America.
He covers a lot of familiar ground including lost cities, sunken kingdoms and extensive underground tunnel systems. Wilkins includes[363.p80] a fascinating tale of an isolated Andean tribe in North-Western Argentina speaking ‘pure’ Gaelic and more pertinent to this work a white tribe known as the Paria who lived in a village called Atlan located in the forest between the Orinoco and the Rio Apure.
In 1948, the first issue of Egerton Sykes’ Atlantis magazine, Wilkins wrote an interesting article on the Oera Linda Book giving its authenticity his support.
Wilkins reported in his book[363] that on column 8 of the Great Hall of Ramses at Karnak there is an inscription referring to the loss of a drowned continent in the Western Ocean. I can find no corroboration of this claim. Even R. Cedric Leonard, who quotes Wilkins and is familiar with Egyptian hieroglyphics, has, surprisingly, not verified this inscription for himself. However, if this report is correct, I would suggest that the Western Ocean was a reference to the Western Mediterranean rather than the Atlantic.
