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the Galchas. While in the last-mentioned tribe the 

 blondes are 8 per cent, of the population, among the 

 Tajiks of Fergannah we meet with 12 to 13 per cent, and 

 in those of Samarkand up to 27 per cent." 1 These are 

 the same proportions as are met with here and there in 

 Europe, and this is natural, since Leucodermic Asia offers 

 the same anthropological composition as Europe. 



Looking at these things without prejudice one may 

 add, that Leucodermic Asia is predominantly and per- 

 haps it was more so in ancient times than now Aryan 

 like Europe. As regards the question whether the 

 blondes have had something to do with the Aryan 

 language, we believe that it was so only as Nordic 

 representatives. Evidently it is necessary to discard the 

 thesis that depigmentation is connected with altitude, in 

 view of the fact that Ujfalvy has been able to establish 

 it as a fact that in the Iranians the blondism of hair 

 diminishes with the altitude, as will be seen from the 

 figures cited above, as also from what he writes : "There 

 is the same progressive variation on account of the alti- 

 tude in the case of the beard. The Tajiks of Samarkand 

 have 38^ of blonde beard, those of Fergannah 36# , the 

 Galchas taken all together 16% and the 43 Galchas of 

 the high valleys of Zerafshan and of its affluents only 

 13^ ." Besides, it seems that the blonde Galchas have 

 been specially sought for by Ujfalvy ' 2 ; consequently the 

 percentage must be still lower, and it seems it diminishes 

 going towards the south : in Chitral blondism has few 

 representatives (a few blondes were seen by Bonvalot), 

 and in India it may be said that it is almost entirely 

 absent. 



1 DK UJFALVV (Ch.), Resultnts antropfilogiques d'un voyage en Asie centrnle, Paris, 

 1880, and in other places. 



- DE UJFALVY (Ch.), Les Aryena. etc., op. cit. p. 48o, 



