CHAPTER VIII. 



THE NORTHERN MONGOLS. 



Domain of the Mongolo-Turki Section Early Contact with Caucasic Peoples- 

 Primitive Man in Siberia and Mongolia Early Man in Korea and 

 Japan in Finland and East Europe Early Man in Babylonia Akkado- 

 Sumerian Origins Relations to the Semites and Aryans Elamite 

 Origins Historical Records Babylonian Religion Social System- 

 General Culture The Mongols Proper Physical Type Ethnical and 

 Administrative Divisions Buddhism The Tunguses Cradle and Type 

 -Mental Characters Shamanism The Manchus Origins and Early 

 Records Type The Dauri Mongolo-Turki Speech -Language and 

 Racial Characters Mongol and Manchu Script --The Yukaghirs 

 A Primitive Writing System Chukchis and Koryaks Chukchi and 

 Eskimo Relations Type and Social State Koryaks and Kamchadales 

 The Gilyaks -The Koreans Ethnical Elements Korean Origins and 

 Records Religion -- The Korean Script The Japanese Origins- 

 Constituent Elements The Ebisu Aborigines Japanese and Liu-kiu 

 Islanders Their Languages and Religions Cult of the Dead Shintoism 

 and Buddhism. 



CONSPECTUS. 



Primeval Home. The Central Asiatic Steppe between 

 the Kuen-lun and Altai Mountains. f* ast and 



Present 



Present Range. The Northern Hemisphere from Times. 

 fapan to Lapland, and frojn the Arctic Ocean to the 

 Great Wall and Tibet] Aralo- Caspian Basin: Parts of 

 Irania; Asia Minor; Parts of East Russia, Balkan 

 Peninsula, and Lower Danube. 



Hair, generally the same as South Mongol, but in Physical 



Charac- 



Mongolo-Caucasic transitional groups brown, chestnut, 

 even towy or light flaxen, also wary and ringletty ; beard 

 mostly absent except amongst the Western Turks and some 

 Koreans. 



