28 GIUFFRITU-RUGGERi & CHAKLAt)Aft 



'aborigines of Central Asia,' "are the descendants of the 

 Sakas, the Yuechis, the Hiungnus and of the Uigurs, 

 grafted upon the elements of a white autochthonous 

 race. 5 ' 1 A white autochthonous race of Central Asia 

 implies the existence geographically near that region of 

 an ancient leucodermic centre, as I have established on 

 other grounds, and this coincidence can certainly not 

 displease me, in as much as I am far from believing in 

 the theories of those who specify Africa as the original 

 seat of the white people. 



Ujfalvy does not say whether this primitive race, 

 before the yellow people were grafted on to them, w r as 

 dolichocephalic or brachycephalic, but probably he was of 

 our opinion favorable to the original dolichocephalic one, 

 since a small series of 8 Dungani measured by him gave 

 him the following ceph. ind. 74'85, 78'83 ; 79*0, 79'0, 

 79-89, 82*9, 84'49, 85'68, while in 8 Manchus he had ^11 the 

 ceph. indices above 80. In making this comparison he 

 evidently wishes to suggest to the reader the improbability 

 that the autochthonous people also had been brachycephalic, 

 since in such a case we would not have among the present 

 Dungani a majority of dolicho-mesaticephals. 



In conclusion, this part of Asia, which ordinarily is 

 given as the common seat of racial crosses, has perhaps 

 an anthropological importance which is unsuspected by 

 the vulgarisators of a certain simple system, and was 

 acutely perceived by Ujfalvy alone. We persist in believ- 

 ing that the Leucoderms have migrated from the N. W. 

 Asia, the last of whom the linguists divide into Eastern 

 Aryans and Western Aryans. These last having gone 

 farther from the original centre must have been the first 

 to depart, and their exodus ended about the year 1800 



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