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logical classification, I shall use a new name 

 XANTHOCHROI indicating that they are yellow " 

 haired and " pale " in complexion. The Chinese 

 historians of the Han dynasty, writing in the third 

 century before our era, describe, with much 

 minuteness, certain numerous and powerful 

 barbarians with "yellow hair, green eyes, and 

 prominent noses," who, the black-haired, skew- 

 eyed, and flat-nosed annalists remark in passing, 

 are "just like the apes from whom they are 

 descended/' These people held, in force, the 

 upper waters of the Yenisei, and thence under 

 various names stretched southward to Thibet and 

 Kashgar. Fair-haired and blue-eyed northern ene- 

 mies were no less known to the ancient Hindoos, 

 to the Persians, and to the Egyptians, on the south 

 and west of the great central Asiatic area ; while 

 the testimony of all European antiquity is to the 

 effect that, before and since the period in question, 

 there lay beyond the Danube, the Rhine, and the 

 Seine, a vast and dangerous yellow or red haired, 

 fair-skinned, blue-eyed population. Whether the 

 disturbers of the marches of the Roman Empire 

 were called Gauls or Germans, Goths, Alans, or 

 Scythians, one thing seems certain, that until the 

 invasion of the Huns, they were largely tall, fair, 

 blue-eyed men. 



If any one should think fit to assume that, in 

 the year 100 B.C., there was one continuous 

 Xanthochroic population from the Rhine to the 



