CHAPTER IX. 



THE NORTHERN MONGOLS (continued). 



The Finno-Turki Peoples Assimilation to the Caucasic Type Turki Cradle 

 Origins and early Records The Scythians Parthians and Turkomans 

 Massagetffi and Yue-chi Indo-Scythians and Gneco-Baktrians Dahae, 

 Jat, and Rajput Origins The "White Huns" -The Uigurs Orkhon 

 Inscriptions The Assena Turki Dynasty Toghuz- Uigur Empire Kash- 

 garian and Zungarian Populations The Oghuz Turks and their Migrations 

 Seljuks and Osmanli The Yakuts The Kirghiz Kazak and Kossack 

 -The Kara-Kirghiz The Finnish Peoples Former and Present Domain 

 Late Westward Spread of the Finns The Bronze and Iron Ages in the 

 Finnish lands The Baltic Finns Relations to Goths, Letts, and Slavs 

 Finno-Russ Origins Tavastian and Karelian Finns The Kwsens The 

 Lapps Samoyads and Permian Finns Lapp Origins and Migrations- 

 Temperament Religion The Volga Finns --The Votyak Pagans - 

 Human Sacrifices The Bulgars Origins and Migrations An Ethnical 

 Transformation Great and Little Bulgaria Avars and Magyars Magyar 

 Origins and early Records -Present Position of the Magyars Ethnical 

 and Linguistic Relations in Eastern Europe. 



IN a very broad way all the western branches of the North 

 Mongol division may be comprised under the 

 Turiti Peoples collective designation of Finno-Turki Mongols. 

 Jointly they constitute a well-marked section of the 

 family, being distinguished from the eastern section by several 

 features which they have in common, and the most important of 

 which is unquestionably a much larger infusion of Caucasic blood 

 than is seen in any of the Mongolo-Tungusic groups. So pro- 

 nounced is this feature amongst many Finnish as well as Turkish 

 peoples, that some anthropologists have felt inclined to deny any 

 direct connection between the eastern and western divisions of 

 Homo Mongolicits, and to regard the Baltic Finns, for instance, 



