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another population, unrecorded in history, but commonly 

 ascribed to a Saracen or Moorish origin, stragglers of those 

 who invaded France in the seventh and eighth century, and 

 were unable to escape. There were Caucones in the Pelopon- 

 nesus, Conconi (drinkers of horse blood), and Cheretani, in the 

 Eastern Pyrenees ; but they and the Almogavaries have been 

 absorbed. 



The Chuvash, still found scattered in the provinces of Kasan, 

 Sembirsk, and Orenburg, in Russia, are a still more obscure 

 race of men. They seem to be the remnant of a semi-brute 

 population, which was scattered on the arrival of the moro 

 intellectual Caucasians. In mental capacity, the Chuvashes 

 are reported to be inferior even to the Ostiaks and Samoyedes. 

 They live without taking the slightest notice of the world 

 around them, in a condition little elevated above the orang- 

 outang. While increase and activity is everywhere witnessed 

 in their vicinity, they alone remain stationary ; industry and 

 civilization excite in them no desires, no wish to be partakers 

 of prosperity; none ever show inclinations to barter, or to be 

 stimulated by gain to increase the means of comfort or of per- 

 sonal happiness, still less to learn any trade. Their counte- 

 nances are stupid, their habits incurably lazy, and their religion, 

 for they have a worship, the most degrading idolatry. Their 

 language is barbarously imperfect, and their manners and 

 customs are still more revolting. The Assassins, Ansarie, 

 Batenians, Dozzim, Laks, and Yezeedis of South-Western 

 Asia, still persecuted, but not wholly exterminated, are tribes 

 of primeval origin, variously mixed. 



The Gypsies, Zingari, Sinde, may be of the same stock as 

 the Tschinganes at the mouth of the Indus, who are them- 

 selves a tribe of mixed oriental Negroes and Caucasians, and 

 are likewise connected with the Gungas or Indian Gypsies and 

 Laubes of Africa, who may all be instanced as examples of the 

 development of human beauty, whenever the typical races are 

 crossed; for, while this result is impressed on the whole of 



