8 ETHNIC MIGEA.TIONS. 



probable they came in at the north where it is much colder than 

 in the other parts, first inhabiting the Punjaub, a country of hot 

 summers and cold winters, not so very different from the countiy 

 they left, they thus in the course of centuries became acclimatised, 

 their constitution altering slowly. "We, on the contrary, inhabit 

 a country totally different in climate to even the cooler parts of 

 India. The permanence of migrating races is secured by the 

 admixture of both sexes This accounts for the want of 

 permanence generally characterizing militaiy migrations, there 

 being in them so few females, and the fighting sex predominating. 

 Children adopt the language and manners of their mothers, much 

 more readily than those of their fathers. In Kormandy the 

 Norsemen soon forgot their their own language and took to 

 Norman French, and long before the Norman Invasion of 

 England, the nobles who wished their children to be not entirely 

 ignorant of the language of their northern ancestors, were 

 accustomed to send them to Bayeux, where Norse or a kindred 

 dialect was spoken. The reason why Bayeux retained this 

 dialect so long was that a large number of Saxons of both sexes 

 had been settled thereabout as colonists in previous centuries. 



