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Zigeuner of Germany, Bohemians of the French, 

 Karashu of Kurdistan, who, notwithstanding they speak 

 a dialect of Hindoostan, and betray by their colour a 

 positive intermixture with Papua blood, have never- 

 theless the crania of Asiatic Finns, and are known to 

 have dwelt among the southernmost tribes of that stem 

 before they came towards the west. As they may 

 have detected Finnic words in the Cophtic, since 

 Klaproth discovered several in the ancient language of 

 Egypt, there is some reason for the claim set up by 

 these roving families for affinity with a Nilotic popu- 

 lation, since they have a similar right to that of Persia 

 and Bokhara, and kindred tribes are among the wan- 

 derers of Northern Africa. They are, indeed, first ob- 

 served to have traversed portions of Southern Tahtary. 

 Some visited Armenia, Syria, and Egypt ; and others, 

 about the year 1400, passed onwards through Poland 

 to Bohemia, and finally extended to England and 

 Spain. 



We have hitherto shown how typical and aberrant 

 races of man have evidently proceeded eccentrically 

 from the vicinity of the table land of High Asia, so 

 far as the proceeding can be traced by geographical 

 necessities, which in most cases have operated like 

 positive laws, and are corroborated by history when 

 human scripta have recorded the facts. Let us now 

 see how the same conditions of Man's primaeval swarm- 

 ing can be traced in the great Caucasian type, of which 

 the eventful career is so much better known than that 

 of the preceding races. 



