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My father's sister is my aunt, o'-ba, which is also rendered by Mr. Heusken, " my 

 little mother." Her children and descendants stand to me in the same relation- 

 ships as those of my uncle last above mentioned. 



My mother's brother is also my uncle, o'-jee, and my mother's sister is my aunt, 

 o'-bd. The relationships of their respective children and descendants are the same 

 as those above given, no difference whatever being made in the several branches of 

 this line. 



The wives of my several collateral brothers are my eider or younger sisters, 

 according to our relative ages ; and the husbands of my several collateral sisters 

 are severally my elder or younger brothers. 



In the third collateral line, my grandfather's brother is my grandfather, o-jee'- 

 sang ; his son is my uncle, o'-jee ; the son of this uncle is my elder or younger 

 brother, a' -nee or o-to'-to ; his son and daughter are my nephew and niece ; and the 

 children of the latter are my grandsons and granddaughters. In the other branches 

 of this line the relationships are the same after that of the first person. 



The fourth and more remote collateral lines are counterparts of the second and 

 third, but with additional ancestors. 



With respect to the position of this system it will be seen, when the Malayan 

 form is presented, that there is a strong probability that it was originally Malayan 

 in form. Whilst the Chinese appears to be in a transition state between the Ma- 

 layan and the Turanian, the Japanese is passing out of the Turanian in the direc- 

 tion of the Aryan form, but without giving sufficient evidence to determine the 

 question whether it passed into the Turanian in its progressive development from 

 the Malayan into its present form. It is placed, provisionally, in the Turanian 

 connection. 



