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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SUPPLEMENT. 
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An old Reference to the Bhotias. 
Father Rodolfi Aquaviva, in a letter to the General of his 
Order, dated April 1582, states that he and his colleagues had dis- 
covered a new nation of Gentiles called Bottan, situated beyond 
Lahore and towards the river Indus. They were a nation very 
well inclined and given to good works. Moreover they were white 
men and there were no Mahommedans among them. It was to 
some confusion between Pathans and Bhutanis can- 
not be Pathan, for the people were Hindus and not Mahommedans 
I submit, therefore, that the Bottanese of Aquaviva must h 
H, Beveripae. 
2. Note on a Quatrain of ‘Umar-i- Khayyam. 
The following quatrain is chanted by dervishes in Persia at 
the gates of great people asa warning against pride. A musician 
informs me that in accordance with the usual Oriental practice, 
e-notes, Ina 
impossible to indicate on the written score without overloading 
‘the simple “ motives” beyond recognition. 
