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too well known to require much discussion. Mongols have 
indeed tried to invade India by Tibet and the Himalayan passes, 
whilst Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English came oversea, 
but the real road to India is by the north-west frontier. It is by 
that route that Mongol, Aryan, Persian, Greek, and Mahomedan, 
after traversing the rugged defiles of the Khyber and other passes, 
suddenly overflowed and destroyed the wealthy and luxurious 
civilisations in the Ganges valley. By this route apparently 
Bacchus entered India before 600 B.c. Some of the aboriginal 
Negrittos (apes in-the legend) fought for him; the descendants of 
his soldiers are supposed to be the Nysaeans, who were driven 
back into the Swat Valley.* The Indian branch of the Aryans 
apparently came by Kabul after a stay at Khiva.t Alexander 
the Great and the Mahomedan invaders also entered by the north- 
west. 
Leaving out the Negritto, who still exists in Malaya, the 
Philippines, and the Andamans, the aboriginal race in India 
seems to be the Gauda Dravidian. Some authorities look upon 
them as a Caucasic people (notably Keane); but they are only 
known now as inhabiting “ refuges,’’ that is jungles and mountain 
fastnesses. In the Bhagavasta Parvana, the Bhil, who may be of 
this race, is described as “of dwarfish stature, a black com- 
plexion, with large ears, and a protuberant belly.’’ The Bhil 
was, according to the legend, produced by rubbing the thigh of 
the dead King. “He immediately shouted eagerly ‘What am I 
to do?’ Everybody cried out, ‘Sit down!’ ’’t Indeed he has 
been obliged to take a back seat ever since. There is apparently 
an affinity between the language of some Dravidian tribes in India 
and that of the Australian Black fellow. These last are supposed 
to have conquered a preceding race, which may have been 
Negrittos, like the extinct Tasmanians. § 
There is a possibility then that man wandered into Australia 
from British India via the Malay Peninsula. As regards the 
Little Black or Negritto, the small dwarfish negroid black man 
who is an incorrigible vagrant with a penchant for poisoned 
* Sir T. Holdich Geog. Journ., January, 1895. 
+ Sir C. A. Hiliott Journ. Soc. Arts, March 3, 1905. 
{ Barnes J. Soc. Arts, Feb. 8, 1907. 
§ Grierson Journ. Soc. Arts, April 13, 1906 ; also Ling Roth Aborigines 
of Tasmania. 
