326 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MOXTHLY. 



The Dravida race once possessed all India from Cape Comorin 

 to the Himalayas, and spread also across the Indus out to Beloochis- 

 tan. Invaded by the immigrating Aryans, they were forced south- 

 ward, until finally they contracted their limits within the southern 

 half of the Indian Peninsula, the so-called Deccan. 



That this race formerly reached so far northward as we have indi- 

 cated is proved by the Brahuis in Beloochistan, whose existence in 

 this country can only be accounted for by such an hypothesis. The 

 beginning of the migrations of the Dravida race coincides with the 

 appearance of the Aryan in the Punjaub and may be placed some- 

 where about the year 2000 b, c. 



Central Asia must be considered the early home of the so-called 

 Mongolian, more properly Upper Asiatic race. From this point this 

 race radiated in all directions, but predominantly to the east and south. 

 The leading people of this race, the Chinese, according to ancient tra- 

 ditions, came from the west into the great valleys of the Hoang-ho and 

 Yang-tse-Kiang. But before them this region was already occupied 

 by another people, as their vestiges, seen in the so-called Miao-tse, 

 demonstrate. This ' stem is not, as we know now, a member of a 

 distinct race, but only of a separate people, and is allied to the people 

 of upper India, especially to the Thai. Thus, before the migration of 

 the Chinese, itself hidden in a gray antiquity, there took place another 

 migration of the aborigines of China belonging to this same race. 



The inhabitants of Japan are also not autochthonous, but have 

 immigrated from the west. They found on their settlement here na- 

 tives who were, in their physical features, very distinct from the intru- 

 ders. Indeed, the fact that in the southern districts the color of the 

 skin of the inhabitants is dark, and their hair somewhat curly, points 

 to a mixture with a darker race. It is not improbable that the Papuan 

 race, whose existence on the Philippine Islands, and perhaps also on 

 Formosa, has been established, diffused themselves originally as far 

 as Japan. 



The migration of the Upper Asiatic race, to the west must have 

 begun early, as we already find in the far past the Lapps and Finns 

 in northern and northeastern Europe, peoples belonging to this race. 

 It is not improbable that this race before the entrance of the Celts into 

 Europe occupied the entire north and northeast, and possibly also a 

 great part of central Europe. Many wi'iters consider the people who 

 used unpolished stone implements and weapons, found in northern and 

 middle Europe, as being a branch of the Mongolian race. 



Hence Europe may have been inhabited by only two races before 

 the entrance of the Indo-Europeans, which latter is coincident with the 

 appearance of the Etruscans and Celts, viz., by the Basques and Ligu- 

 rians — a people of unknown ethnological character in the south, and the 

 Upper Asiatic stems in the north. This settlement of the Upper 

 Asiatic race in Europe, long before the immigration of the Indo-Euro- 



