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literature. It is well known now that the Maggyars 

 are a Tartar race, and that their language is a Tartar 

 language ; but thirty years ago that was only be- 

 ginning to appear, so Csomo de Kbros wandered east- 

 ward in search of the congeners of his countrymen. 

 At that time Central Asia was more open to Europeans 

 than it has been of late years ; so he came by way of 

 Kaubul, and, on entering the inner Himaliya, found 

 so many affinities between the Tibetan language and 

 that of his countrymen, that he concluded he had dis- 

 covered the original stem of the Maggyar race. Years 

 were passed by him at Kanam, and at the still more 

 secluded monastery of Eingdom, where I found he 

 was well remembered ; and he made himself a master 

 of the Lama religion and of the Tibetan language, 

 besides preparing a number of manuscripts regarding 

 the Tibetan literature. But this did not content him, 

 for he was anxious to penetrate into Chinese Tibet as 

 far as Lassa ; and finding all his efforts to do so from 

 Kunawar were frustrated, he went down into India, 

 and ascended the Himaliya again at Darjiling, with 

 the intention of penetrating into Tibet from that point 

 in disguise. At Darjiling, however, he died suddenly 

 whether from the effects of passing through the 

 Terai, or from poison, or from what cause, no one 

 can say, nor have I been able to learn what became 

 of his manuscripts. I suppose nobody at Darjiling 

 knew anything about him ; and Dr Stoliczka told me 

 he had met some Hungarians who had come to India 



