1884.] 



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197 



to suppose that the name 

 Doongans referred only to 

 those exiled Uigurs who were 

 largely mixed with Chinese. 

 To the Uigurs who remained 

 in Eastern Turkistan the name 

 Doongans can in no way be 

 applied. At present in all the 

 towns of Kashgaria, one gene- 

 ral and very similar type of 

 countenance prevails. This 

 proceeds from a mixture of a 

 Mongol race with a Turkish 

 or, perhaps, with an Indo- 

 Germanic, in which Turkish 

 predominates. The inhabitants 

 of Kashgar cannot be distin- 

 guished from the inhabitants 

 of Khotan, and the inhabi- 

 tants of Khotan from those of 

 Aksu. In the latter city the 

 prominent type of a Mongol 

 race is more noticeable. The 

 Doongans form a marked cou- 

 trast to the original inhabi- 

 tants, for the Doongans only 

 came into Kashgaria with the 

 Chinese in the middle of the 

 past century. Amongst the 

 Doongans the Chinese admix- 

 ture is so apparent as to be 

 recognizable without mistake 

 amongst hundreds of natives." 

 Chapter IV, p. 103. " Taking ad- 

 vantage of the fall of the 

 Mongol Dynasty of Han in 

 China, the Djoongars, in the 

 beginning of the 17th cen- 

 tury, concluded an alliance, at 

 the head of which they placed 

 Haldan-Bokoshta, a Khan of 

 the Tchorors line." 



tary settlers, see native maps. 

 The disuse of the Persian 

 tongue which they spoke when 

 they left Samarcand is ac- 

 counted for by marriage with 

 Chinese women ; this also ac- 

 counts for their Mongol fea- 

 tures, see " Huei Hueiventui." 

 Dungan or Tungan is the 

 Turki name for Chinese-speak- 

 ing Muhammadans, see p. 154, 

 note 2. 



Chapter IV, page 103, last para- 

 graph, Mongol Dynasty of 

 Han read Yuan. 



