METHODS AND RESULTS OF ETHNOLOGY. 231 



logical classification, I shall use a new name — 

 Xaxthochroi — indicating that they are " yellow " 

 haired and " pale " in complexion. The Chinese 

 historians of the Han dynasty, writing in the third 

 century before our era, describe, with much 

 minuteness, certain numerous and powerful bar- 

 barians with " yellow hair, green eyes, and promi- 

 nent noses," who, the black-haired, skew-eyed, and 

 flat-nosed annalists remark in passing, are " just 

 like the apes from whom they are descended." 

 These people held, in force, the upper waters of 

 the Yenisei, and thence under various names 

 stretched southward to Thibet and Kashgar. 

 Fair-haired and blue-eyed northern enemies were 

 no less known to the ancient Hindoos, to the Per- 

 sians, and to the Egyptians, on the south and west 

 of the great central Asiatic area; while the testi- 

 mony of all European antiquity is to the effect that, 

 before and since the period in question, there lay 

 beyond the Danube, the Ehine, and the Seine, a 

 vast and dangerous yellow or red-haired, fair- 

 skinned, blue-eyed population. Whether the dis- 

 turbers of the marches of the Eoman Empire were 

 called Gauls or Germans, Goths, Alans, or Scyth- 

 ians, one thing seems certain, that until the in- 

 vasion of the Huns, they were largely tall, fair, 

 blue-eyed men. 



If any one should think fit to assume that, in 

 the year 100 b. c, there was one continuous Xan- 

 thochroic population from the Rhine to the Yeni- 



