

ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA 3? 



stock. 1 The anthropometric characters show their rela- 

 tionship with the Carakirghizi and also with some of the 

 tribes of Cashghar, that is to say, with the Loplik in stature 

 and with the Cheria in the ceph. ind. and nas. index, but 

 specially with the Turf an Taranchi who have been measured 

 by Stein (Joyce), and whom I have assigned to H.asictficus 

 cent rails. So I did the same in the case of the Hazaras, 

 as soon as the nasal index warned me that I was not deal- 

 ing with Leucoderms, but with an extreme offspring of the 

 Mongolian race, and in examining the descriptive charac- 

 teristics I found my opinion confirmed. But how can we 

 assign the Chhuttas and the Bandijas of Beluchistan to the 

 Mongoloids only because they present a strong degree of 

 brachycephalism, while they have a nas. index of 58'6 and 

 59'9 respectively and an orbitonasal index of 124*3 and 

 122'6 respectively ? Allowing that the colour of the skin 

 is of no account, do we wish also to leave aside the 

 facial characteristics, which involve also the morphology 

 of the skeleton of the face ? Certainly one may reject 

 everything that is disturbing, but one must not pretend 

 that the result, thus " selected," is an objective classifi- 

 cation and much less that it is naturalistic: and to be 

 proud of it seems to me absolutely ingenuous as nothing 

 indeed is easier. 



We do not wish to pass over in silence the fact that it 

 has been said to satiety by Sergi that in this part of the 

 globe we have to do with a mixed variety or species, but 

 to accept such a diagnosis would be equivalent to accept- 

 ing the Sergian classification, which considers all the 



1 See the physical description in SAINT MARTIN (V. de), Nouveau Dictionaire de 

 Geographie, Vol. II, Paris, 1884, p. 655. It shows that the Hazaras are pastoral 

 Mongols established in the western parts of Afghanistan for many centuries, as they 

 are mentioned as living there in the year 1265 by Abul Fazl, who notes that 77 

 vear.8 before Khorassan had been abandoned by its inhabitants, hence the ethnic 

 r.hancre may be thrown back to 1 188. 



