of Chinese; costume; the queue; female head-dress; Tartar 

 power; utilitarian habits; Mongol character; government; 

 Emperor and mandarins; corruption; punishments; ideas 

 of motherhood; religions: Confucianism, Taoism, Bud- 

 dhism. MONGOLIA Geographical region; Mongol con- 

 quests; present unimportance; Mongol type; Marco 

 Polo's description; summary of character and condi- 

 tion 121-144 



CHAPTER Vli 



JAPAN, THE HAIRY AINU, KOREA, FOR- 

 MOSA, LIU-KIU ISLANDS, AND TIBET 



JAPAN Nippon, " Land of the Rising Sun "; geography 

 and population; blended races; military successes; tra- 

 ditional origins; physical and mental traits; authentic 

 history; manners; amusements; dress; revolution of 1868; 

 graphic description of the people; Japanese art; religion; 

 Shinto shrines; Christian missions. THE HAIRY AINU 

 Aborigines of Japan; descriptions of travellers; huts and 

 villages; persistent characteristics. KOREA Mongolian 

 stock; the people and their modes of life. FORMOSA 

 Ceded to Japan; Chinese and other inhabitants; customs 

 of wild tribes. Liu-Kiu ISLANDS Japanese and Chinese 

 elements; Chamberlain's account of the people. TIBET 

 Country and population; industries; Lassa, the sacred 

 city; Lamaism; praying-wheels, etc 145-168 



CHAPTER VIII 



THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS THE VEDDAS OF 

 CEYLON THE ABORIGINAL RACES OF 

 INDIA: CENSUS RETURNS OF POPULA- 

 TION: CLASSIFICATION OF RACES: THE 

 ARYAN INVASION: CASTE: KOLS, GONDS, 

 TODAS, KHONDS, ETC. 



THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS People of the Great Anda- 

 man group; dwarfish stature; scanty clothing; modes of 

 life as described by Man and Dobson. THE VEDDAS OF 

 CEYLON People a remnant; wretchedness and dejection; 

 an ill-shapen race; disgusting food; Sir James Tennent's 

 three groups; primitive virtues and defects. INDIA 

 Hindu type; Topinard's three strata; Dravidians and 

 Jats; alliance with Australian natives; census of India; 

 Keane's classification; " a great museum of races"; 

 Willam Crooke on the so-called Aryan invasion. HINDU 

 CASTES Definition of caste; four original castes and 

 table of chief subdivisions; description of various castes 

 and tribes 169-192 



CHAPTER IX 



INDIA (continued): WOLF-REARED CHILDREN, 

 KASHMIRIS, PARSIS, KHASIS: RELIGION 

 IN INDIA: ARYAN THEOLOGY, LITER- 

 ATURE, ETC. AFGHANISTAN AND BALU- 

 CHISTAN 



WOLF-REARED CHILDREN Tradition confirmed; Ball's 

 testimony; Max Muller's interest. KASHMIRIS One of 

 the finest Indian races; description of the type. PAUSIS 

 Iranians settled in Bombay; race and religion preserved 

 through centuries. KHASIS Members of the Tibeto- 

 Burmese race; grand dances in honor of the new moon. 

 RELIGION IN INDIA Statistical information regarding 

 the various religions and sects. ARYAN THEOLOGY, 

 LITERATURE, ETC. The Vedas; belief in a future state; 

 Aryan migration told in Vedic hymns; the Vedic period; 

 beginning of the burning of widows (suttee); Aryan 

 character and faith; teaching of the Brahmans; unity of 

 God; Brahmanic literature; domination of the Brahmans; 

 their discipline; praise and criticism of them; religious 

 fanaticism; fakirs; sacrilege of killing cattle. AFGHANIS- 



TAN AND BALUCHISTAN Afghans a fine, warlike race; 

 tradition of their origin; Keane and Bellew on the Afghans; 

 Baluchis distinguished from Afghans.. 193-216 



CHAPTER X 



TURKESTAN, BOKHARA, SIBERIA, AND 

 PERSIA 



TURKESTAN History; tribes and hordes; characteris- 

 tics; manners; peculiar customs. BOKHARA Practically 

 Russian; mixed population; Usbegs and Tajiks compared. 

 SIBERIA Classification of native inhabitants; the Tun- 

 guses; their admirable qualities; Theel's estimate of them; 

 how they hunt; they live in tents; called " Frenchmen of 

 the tundra"; Samoyedes and Ostiaks, of Finnish stock; 

 full description of these dwellers in the Arctic Circle; other 

 Siberian tribes. PERSIA Past and present extent, 

 primary types and various branches of the Persians; 

 physical and mental traits; family and social relations; 

 "great liars"; culture and industry; subtlety and polite- 

 ness; distinctive dress; diet; buildings; Iranians: Nestori- 

 ans; Kurds; Luris and Bakhtians; story of a Bakhtian 

 chief; Persians chiefly Mohammedans of the fanatical 

 Sliiah sect 217-240 



CHAPTER XI 



ARABIA, SYRIA, PALESTINE, ASIA MINOR, 

 AND ARMENIA 



ARABIA Arabs most picturesque of Orientals; race; 

 typical Bedouin; character; Vambery contrasts Arab 

 and Turk; hospitality; manners; dress; weapons; (own- 

 dwellers; food; discovery of coffee; animals; social classes; 

 customs and ceremonies; fanatical Islamites. SYRIA 

 Former territory and present extent; mixed race: Moham- 

 medanism; the Druses. PALESTINE Position and popu- 

 lation; the Hebrew race and character; their intellectual 

 influence; history and religion; Jewish weddings. ASIA 

 MINOR Three chief elements of population, Turks, 

 Greeks, Armenians; interesting description of each; 

 Burnaby on dwellings and inmates. ARMENIANS Dis- 

 tribution; race; character and habits; Armenia an Asiatic 

 battle-ground; comparison with Jews; female dress; once 

 fire-worshippers; churches and monasteries; gorgeous 

 ritual 241-264 



CHAPTER XII 



AFRICA: INTRODUCTORY-THE PYGMY OR 

 NEGRILLO RACES THE PEOPLE OF 

 MADAGASCAR 



General characteristics and classification. BUSHMEN 

 Location and history; physical features; dress, ornaments, 

 and weapons; dwellings; drawings; food; social system; 

 religion; folklore; language. ANGOLA DWARFS Ap- 

 pearance and habits. THE OBONGO Described by Du 

 Chaillu and Lenz. THE AKKA Best known of Equa- 

 torial dwarfs; referred to by ancient writers; modern 

 accounts by Stanley, Junker, and Schweinfurth; Schwein- 

 furth's Akka boy. BATWA AND WAMBUTTU Interest- 

 ing observations by Stanley, Burrows, and others. Emin 

 Pasha's servant. PYGMIES IN ABYSSINIA AND BRITISH 

 EAST AFRICA Described by Sir W. C. Harris, Rigby, 

 Borelli, etc. PEOPLE OF MADAGASCAR A Malay race; 

 divisions; the Hova, Bara, Ikongo, Sakalava, and other 

 tribes; descriptions by travellers 265-288 



CHAPTER XIII 



THE NEGRO IN GENERAL THE BANTU 

 NEGROES 



Physical features; dress and ornaments; tattooing; 

 weapons; dwellings; food; social organisation; character; 



