sfiand our own tongue. The blood of the aborigines is prob- 

 ably there still, but the Ai7an; characteristic© have over- 

 whelmed it, and in the river valley country the people are 

 Aryan like ourselves. In fact, some of the finest speci- 

 mens of the race are here. I think the Sikh policemen are 

 the finest physical specimens of the Caucasian race I have 

 ever seen. They have tlie prominent straight nose, just 

 like our own; tall, square, athletic figures, straight black 

 hair and features altogether European. Although as black 

 as negroes, they are membei's of the white or Caucasian 

 race. The type seems to improve as we go westward to the 

 mountains, nearer the original source of the immigTation. 



Now, these people found in India, another race, 

 and conquered, killed or drove them south. In the 

 Bccean, the great peninsula of the south, VvC find people 

 who are probably descendants of these same a.borigine&. 

 But their charxicteristics have been so much modified by 

 mixture with the blood of their Aryan conquerors that one 

 can hardly tell of what race they originally were. It Beems, 

 however, that they were of the Mongolian stock, that is, 

 of the yellovv' race. 



Now, oven this aborigiual race seems to have had to 

 conquer another race still rnore ancient. For the negro race 

 seerns to' have been here first of all. This brings us to one 

 of the greatest curiosities of Ethnology, but of this later. 

 There M'as also> possibly a mysterious white race here of a 

 very low type, of which some traces still remain. Now the 

 people of India are mixtures of these four races. 



In the north we have the Aryan purer as we go west, 

 with prominent bony noses. In the south the mixture of 

 Mongolian, Ethiopian and low Caucasian has imparted a 

 change. The most noticeable thing is the shape of the 

 nose. In the south the nose is low in the bridge, between 

 the eyes 



The Tamils are a people of the South of India and 

 Ceylon that show these race mixtures very distinctly. They 

 have the nose low between the ej^B, cjenoting the presence 



