614 SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 



ludo-Aral. CMoormeu, 168,000) 187,000 • 



Eurasians 18,000 



Malays 9,000 



Afghans, Arabs, Bengalese 7,000 



E uropeans 5,000 



Veddahs (males, 1,177; females, 1,051) 2,228 



An excellent review of this work is in Arehiii f. Anthropolof/ie (xxii, 

 31()-;}27). 



The Khniers, of Cambodia, have been studied by Dr. Maiirel, and 

 the results of his investigations are made known in one of the Memoires 

 (le la Societe cVAnthropolor/ie de Far is. They are the easternmost branch 

 of the Aryan stock arriving from India with their native culture and 

 have become mixed with various other strains. 



The publishers of V Anthropoloyie have brought together the papers 

 of Br. Eitel upon the Hak-ka (Paris, iv, 129-181), the general title of 

 the Chinese inhabiting the province of Canton. These peojile have 

 spread themselves throughout Indo China. With diverse elements 

 that are mutually antagonistic, they seem to be bound together by a 

 common interest. The population of Canton is as mixed as was that 

 of England after the Norman conquest. The Miao-tse aborigines have 

 been corralled in the mountainous districts to the northwest by a 

 migrating people, who came to occupy the entire i^rovince and who 

 entitled themselves the Aborigines (Pun-ti). Later, these had to 

 defend themselves successively against two other invaders of different 

 race. These last are the Hak-ka and the Tchao-Tcheow or Hok-lo. 

 The last named prefer the water and the Hak ka the land. Both peo- 

 ples came from the northwest, one following the waters, the other the 

 mountains. The monograi)h of Dr. Eitel is devoted to the Hak-ka, 

 their ethnography and history. 



Dr. IMichaut has published a work on the A'inos. As was often 

 pointed out, these people are neither Mongol nor Japanese, but 

 approach astonishingly the Eussian Moujik and are probably an aber- 

 rant branch of the white race. They are remarkably pure in blood, and 

 may foreshadow the coming of the Eussian to the Pacific coast to claim 

 their own. The language is absolutely special, but approaches the 

 Mantchoo in phrase and syntax. (Bull. Soc. (VAnlhroi). de Paris, 4. s., 

 IV, 250-2G3.) 



The greatest interest now centers in the ethnology of northeastern 

 Asia outside the question of the identity of the present peo];)les with 

 those of America. The Kamchatkans, Ghiliaks, Koriaks, Yukaghirs, 

 and others are supposed to be the remnants of the aborigines of north- 

 ern Asia and even of the Japanese Isles. The studies of Schlegel in 

 Chinese, of Morse in the shell heaps of Japan arc thought to be con- 

 firmatory of this. The arts of these small people agree in many respects 

 with those of the Hyperborean Americans. 



I^ew light is thrown upon the African pigmies by the researches of 

 Stuhlmann, an associate of Emin Bey. In stature they average 1-25 



