346 Mr. Ranking on the Origin 



Ahul Ghazi, ii. 429 ; Soongars, by Pallas, i. 494 ; Zungores, by 

 Chappe, i. 308. By themselves and the Chinese they are 

 named Eluths, or Aleouths *. 



The Turks and the Mongols both conquered up to the Arctic 

 sea : the first have named Yakutsk, Northern Turqiiestan, 

 and the emperor Kublai sent to the mouth of the Lena always 

 for his falcons (he had 10,000 falconers). These events, and 

 the accidental blowing away of fields of ice with the walrus 

 (there called mammoth) fishermen upon them, over Behring's 

 Straits, as described by the Russian Chancellor of Siberia, 

 Muschkin Puschkinf, have undoubtedly furnished America 

 with many Siberians. These fisheries, for the sake of the va- 

 luable ivory tusks of the walrus, are known in history twenty- 

 three centuries. — (Wars and Sports, ch. xvi.) With respect 

 to the languages recognised in America, of 170 words, the roots 

 of which are the same, 115 are Mongol, Mandshur, Tungouse, 

 Samoyede, and Tschoud : 55 are Celtic, Biscayan, Coptic, or 

 Congo J ; that is, 55 Spanish or African; and not one negro 

 was found by the Spaniards at the conquest. *' The North 

 American Indians have a kind of language by signs ; it has 

 much analogy with such signs used by Chinese, as described 

 by Sir G. Staunton." — (JV. Dunbar, of Natches, Trans, of 

 u^mer. Phil. Soc, vol. vi. p. 1.) The 'History of the Five Indian 

 Nations §,' depending on New York, represents, in a remark- 

 able manner, a correct description of the northern Asiatics. 



Kanifer, governor of Jenesai, to visit the tombs of their ancestors near that city.— 

 (Wars and Sports, p. 216.) 



It is related in tlie news (1828) from China, that the rebel in Tartary lays claim 

 to the throne of Pekin. As the present Mandshur emperors are probably descended 

 from the dnvghter of Kublai, it appears likely that the Contaish may be descended, 

 in thewfl/e line, from the emperor who was expelled from China in 1369, and thereon 

 founds his claim to the Chinese crown. Professor Lcdebuhr was, in 1826, on the 

 banks of the Tchonga, and visited the tents of the Calmuc, Saisan-Mongol, not far 

 from the first Chinese post.— ^Mew«-«w, Feb. 29, 1828, p. 171. 



* Sir R. Ker Porter's Travels in Georgia, Persia, &c. 1. 474. (Du Halde, ii. 257.) 



t Father Avril's Travels, p. 176. Wars and Sports of the Mongols, ch. xviii. 



% Humboldt, Researches, i. 20. 



§ Ey the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Surveyor-General of New York, 2 vols. 

 London, 1755. " The five nations (says he) are a poor, and generally called, bar- 

 barous people, bred under the darkest ignorance ; and yet a bright and noble genius 

 shines through these black clouds. None of the greatest Roman heroes have shown 

 a greater love for their country, or a greater contempt of death, than these people, 

 called barbarians, have done, when liberty came in competition. These noble virtues 

 are sullied by that cruel passion, revenge; which they think it not only lawful, but 



