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Caucasian peoples ; and it has left behind such rem- 

 nants as the Finlander and the Laplander, the Bulgar, 

 and the Magyar. It is evident that these western 

 branches of the Mongol stock are not at all pure in their 

 racial characteristics, for they clearly show the effects 

 of a mixture with alien European peoples. To assign 

 them to the Northern Mongol division means only that 

 their dominant characteristics are mainly those of 

 Mongolian nature. We have referred the Russians to 

 the middle Caucasian division even though the Slav 

 or Tartar infusion is very great, but it does not domi- 

 nate over the Caucasian peculiarities as it does in the 

 case of the peoples we have mentioned. As regards 

 the remaining types we must add to this brief list the 

 Koreans and the Japanese, the former being far purer 

 in Mongolian nature than the latter people, which has 

 apparently been affected by a Malay influence from 

 the south. 



Turning now to the southern Mongol, we find that 

 from their cradle in the Tibetan plateau they too have 

 spread widely, and their descendants have also come 

 to differ in certain respects as they have established 

 themselves in other lands. Most of the present people 

 of Tibet belong to this section ; the Gurkhas of Hin- 

 dustan, the people of Burma proper, of Annam, and 

 Cochin China are close relatives of one another and of 

 the more characteristic Mongolians of China proper 

 who make up the vast bulk of the population. From 

 this stock we may also derive the Malays of Sumatra 

 and Java, of Borneo and Celebes, and the Tagals and 

 Bisayans of the Philippine Islands. Even the Hovars 

 and other tribes of Madagascar may be referred to this 



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