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differs fundamentally from all the languages from Burma 

 to China in being polysyllabic, in the absence of into- 

 nation, and in grammatical structure. 



We thus see that for a period of more than two 

 thousand years there was, in the great south-eastern 

 peninsula of Asia, a dense population of various races 

 ruled over by a highly civilized superior race of undoubted 

 Caucasian type. But there are still existing the remains 

 of several other tribes, now in a savage state, which are 



Fig. 80.— sculptures from the ruined cities. 



more or less closely allied to these. Such are the two 

 figured in Garnier's Atlas as inhabiting the mountains of 

 Se-don and the valley of Se-cong, both having fine 

 aquiline noses, good features, and long wavy hair with a 

 dark brown skin ; while the Chreans inhabiting the 

 frontiers of Cambodia and Annam are light in colour but 

 with equally Caucasian features. The Khayems near the 

 sources of the Irawaddi have already been mentioned as 

 Caucasic ; and I have been recently informed by a gentle- 

 man in the service of the Chinese government that, on 



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