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Ogus or Oloug Khan the Great, who flourished, it is 

 said, about 657 B. C. should be mentioned, if indeed 

 his exploits belong to a Mongolic or beardless people ; 

 for he resided in winter near the Sir-Deriah, or Jax- 

 artes, centuries before the Greta and Sakia Caucasians 

 came westward by this and the Oxus rivers. 



Japan, divided into islands, in part possessed by 

 tribes not typical, but of anomalous origin, with a 

 colder stormy climate and soil, often disturbed by the 

 most terrible earthquakes, presents a more energetic 

 population, which being free from foreign wars, is 

 ever ready to break out in sanguinary rebellion, not 

 a little fostered by the jealous timidity of the ruling 

 powers. 



On the south of the Chinese empire, vast woody 

 mountain ranges, and abundant rivers, constitute wil- 

 dernesses of vegetation, thinly inhabited by nations, 

 forming several kingdoms, with an interior but little 

 known. The Mongolic stock is most numerous on the 

 north-east, the Caucasian type on the west, and in the 

 interior and the Malay peninsula the Papua popula- 

 tion still lingers. Power is in the hands of the first ; 

 the denomination of geographical localities the patri- 

 mony of the second ; and the third has undoubtedly 

 intermixed and adulterated the blood of both. 



By these facts we detect the successive occupiers ; 

 the Hindoo races invading the aborigines long before 

 they were in turn made subjects of the beardless con- 

 querors. This process, we have already shown, has 

 extended onwards through the Australian and Polyne- 



