276 BIMANA. 



Corea, Tonquin, Cochin-China, Pegu, Bengal, and Thibet, were also 

 reduced to obedience, if not absolutely conquered : 140 years after the 

 death of Zingis, his dynasty was expelled. In the seventeenth century, 

 China again yielded to the arms of an invader, Xung-ki, a Mantchou 

 king, whose successors still hold the sovereignty. 



The Mantchou Tatars, as we are informed by Barrow, are scarcely 

 distinguishable from the Chinese : the latter are rather taller, and of a 

 more delicate and slender frame than the former, who are, in general, 

 short, thick, and robust. The small eye, elliptical at the end next 

 the nose, is a predominating feature in the cast of both the Chinese 

 and Tatar countenance, and they have the same high cheek-bones and 

 pointed chins. Their complexion is a tint between a fair and dark, ex- 

 pressed by the word, brunet, or brunette ; and the shades of this tint 

 are deeper, according to exposure to the influence of the climate. Hence, 

 the women of the lower class, who labour in the fields, or who dwell in 

 vessels, are, almost invariably, coarse, ill-featured, and of a deep or 

 brown complexion, like that of the Hottentots. The portrait (fig. 211) 

 is characteristic of the Chinese stamp of countenance. 



The natives of Thibet, according to Turner, have black hair, and 

 small black eyes, with long pointed corners, as if extended by artificial 

 means ; the eyelashes are so thin as to be scarcely perceptible ; and the 

 eyebrows are but slightly shaded : below the eyes, the face, which is 

 rather flat, is broadly spread, but it narrows from the cheek-bones to the 

 chin : their skins are remarkably smooth ; and, even at a very advanced 

 age, the rudiments of a beard are scarcely perceptible : their complexion 

 is not so dark, by many shades, as that of the European Portuguese. (See 

 Turner's Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama.) 



Of the Persian conquest by Holagou-Khan, the grandson of Zingis, 

 and afterward by Tamerlane, or of the successful invasion of Hindostan 

 by Tamerlane, who trod in the footsteps of Alexander, but paused not 

 where the Macedonian stopped, and made his triumphal entrance into 

 Delhi, glutting his soldiers with the pillage of the city and the blood of 

 the Gentoos, this is not the place to treat : these events are here merely 

 noticed to shew the extent of the Mongole conquests. 



HYPERBOREAN BRANCH. To the Mongole type many nations, in- 

 habiting the wilds of Siberia, above the Altaic chain, to the borders of 

 the Northern Ocean, are also referable. The natives of Corea and 

 Kamtschatka, and the adjacent Aleutian Islands ; the Tongouses, or 

 Tongutski ; the Samoiedes and Ostiacs, may also be included, together 

 with the Greenlanders and Esquimaux tribes of North America. The 

 characteristic features of the Samoiedes are well represented by the 

 annexed^ figure (212). 



The hair is long, coarse, and black ; the face flat and broad ; the 



