344 NATURAL HISTORY Of 



north-oast, the Euro-Caucasians i I on the left of the 



ite of Tirhut; Canya Cubja occupied the uppei 

 pans of the river. Sereswati, the present Punjaub and (Jtkala 

 contained the greater part of B On the south and 



there arose G-ujara, Rushtra, or Gujrat, Patala on I 

 Indus, with other kingdoms already named. K \, fur- 



ther to the south, Mura, or king lom of Mabrustra, now Mah- 

 ratta Stai !. p rhaps, by Arii or Arai, in the centre, 



with the Dekhan and Kanara, on the extreme point of the 

 peninsula. But sanguinary and protracted wars alone permit- 

 ted the white races to become dominant and to effect a gradual 

 intermixture. 



War-, producing total subjugation, by one race over another, 

 the character ol extermination; they necessitate the wi 

 party to Beek safety in flight and migration : nor is the result 

 very different where the races are already partially interna 

 for then a ruling caste, descended from the last victors, is driven 

 to the same course, or to total loss of all supremacy, unless the 

 chances of the conflict are sufficiently chequered to cause the ear- 

 lier and later invaders to coalesce by compromise. Now, if the 

 Pandoo heroes, with Ardjoon and Bhima at their head, departed 

 after the defeat of the Yadhu tribes, there is little doubt that 

 the direction of their retreat was -westward, and constituted 

 one of those migrations of the Asiatic Ethiop race, which was 

 afterwards conspicuous in southern Persia, as a portion of the 

 so-called Indo-Arabs, who were ultimately driven from Yemen, 

 and passed to Abyssinia, or formed the Cushite people of Afri- 

 can Ethiopia.* Tribes of this class were most assuredly the 



* If IS'imrod, as is asserted, was a Cuthite king, ruling from the first 

 in Assyria, the Babel which preceded Babylon was a city of Ethiopians, 

 with Caucasian or Finnic rulers, probably the Gaurs, who seem to lie iden- 

 tical with the Gordei, who may still be represented by the Coords of the 

 present day. Nineveh, &c, were capitals of northern districts, but the 

 resident population, between the Tigris and Euphrates, was Ethiopian ; 

 since Mesopotamia, now Djezirat, was encompassed by the river. This cir- 

 cumstance, and the swarthy Colchians of Herodotus, gives the northern 



