198 SURGEON-GENERAL C. A. GORDON. 
definable, and Bishop Lightfoot, in his excellent treatise on St. Paul’s 
Epistle to the Corinthians, considers that the remark of St. Paul, 
“and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, 
it profiteth me nothing,” was derived from the Brahmins during the 
reign of Augustus; and I will go further, if you will allow me to do 
so, not as claiming the scholarship of Bishop Lightfoot, but I think 
it has reference to the unknown God mentioned in Acts xvi. 23, 
and Professor Plumtree appears to advocate the same principle. 
Perhaps you will allow me to say in regard to the Yuechi people men- 
tioned on the third page of the paper, that I think, from their name, 
they are by no means an aboriginal race belonging to Central Asia 
on the borders of China, and [ think it is allowed by most 
scholars that these Yuechi were really Scythians, and the word 
“Scythian” is a very comprehensive one. Karl Blind, in a 
late number of the Aszatic Review, says that the Goths were 
Scythians. These Yuechi he believes, had invaded that part of 
Central Asia, and were a blue-eyed and fair-haired race, and were 
driven back by the Hiongnou race or the Huns. I do not know 
whether I am right in saying the Huns, but it is said they were 
driven back to their original country, and that when on the borders 
of the Caspian Sea there they met with the Parthians, and finally 
helped to oyerthrow the Greeko-Bactrian. kingdom. As _ Dr. 
Gordon says, these people were called Sco/oti as well, and they are 
spoken of as having golden cups round their necks, and there have 
been several discoveries of these Scythians or Scolott. They were 
accustomed to make their drinking-cups out of skulls when denuded 
of the skin. I would say as to Chin-tan being ‘“‘The Dawn” that 
in Hiouen Thsang the word Chin-tan constantly occurs for China, 
and by it is understood nothing but Thine. Dr. Gordon spoke of 
China-pati as bearing on a period as recent as A.D. 629—645. 
From ‘the records of Fa Hian and Hiouen Thsang, whose travels I 
have had the honour of translating, it would appear that a temple 
was erected there, near the Beas river asearly as A.D. 150. Then, 
again, Dr. Gordon referred to hostages being taken there at so late 
a date as A.D. 600 or 700, the empire of Kanishka being 
established about B.C. 50; but I venture to say that it was not 
B.C. 40 or 50, but A.D. 500 or 600, and I think that is shown by 
the inscriptions at Muttra, Manikiala,and Bhawulpore, thus bringing 
a time claimed to be B.C. 50 or 60 down to about A.D. 500 or 600. As 
a stranger here, I should be sorry to take up further time, but there 
are one or two points I should like to refer to as to the Scythians. 
