2O6 MAN I PAST AND PRESENT. [CHAP. 



This tradition, which would identify them with the above-men- 

 tioned Man-tse, is supported by their physical appearance long 

 head, oval face, small cheek-bones, eyes without the Mongol fold, 

 skin not yellowish but rather "browned by the sun," regular 

 features in nothing recalling the traits of the yellow races. 



Let us now turn to M. R. Verneau's comments on the rich 



materials brought together by Dr Billet, in whom, 



Aborigines in "being not only a medical man, but also a graduate 



A " a in the natural sciences, absolute confidence may be 



placed 1 ." 



"The Mans-Tien, the Mans-Coc, the Mans-Meo (Miao, Miao- 

 tse, or Mieu) present a pretty complete identity with the Pan-y 

 and the Pan-yao of South Kwang-si; they are the debris of a very 

 ancient race, which with T. de Lacouperie may be called pre- 

 Chinese. This early race, which bore the name of Pan-hu or Ngao, 

 occupied Central China before the arrival of the Chinese. Accord- 

 ing to M. d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, the mountains and valleys of 

 Kwei-chau where these Miao-tse still survive were the cradle of 

 the Pan-hu. In any case it seems certain that the T'hai and the 

 Man race came from Central Asia, and that, from the anthropo- 

 logical standpoint, they differ altogether from the Mongol group 

 represented by the Chinese and the Annamese. The Man especi- 

 ally presents striking affinities with the Aryan type." 



Thus is again confirmed by the latest investigations, and by 

 the conclusions of some of the leading members of the French 

 school of anthropology, the view first advanced by me in 1879, 

 that peoples of the Caucasic (here called "Aryan") division had 

 already spread to the utmost confines of south-east Asia in 

 remote prehistoric times, and had in this region even preceded 

 the first waves of Mongolic migration radiating from their cradle- 

 land on the Tibetan plateau 2 . 



Reference was above made to the singular lack of political 



The Siamese cohesion at all times betrayed by the Tai-Shan 



Shans. peoples. The only noteworthy exception is the 



1 L? Anthropologie^ 1896, p. 602 sq. 



2 On the Relations of the Indo-Chinese and Inter-Oceanic Races and Lan- 

 guages, Paper read at the Meeting of the Brit. Association, Sheffield, 1879, anc l 

 printed in the Jonrn, Anthrop. Inst. February, 1880. See also Eth. p. 326. 



