376 A. §. Bickmore on the Ainos of Saghalien. 
clined and conjugated, agree with those of their southern, 
northern and western neighbors, who write their language syl- 
labically (as the Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, Yakuts, etc.) 
and not jiguratively, that is to say, using signs for words (as 
the Chinese).” 
Here, then, we have an Aryan people speaking a non- 
Aryan language, and that language peculiarly their own; not 
learned from a people who have subjugated them, or from a 
people whom they have subjugated, at least within two thou- 
sand five hundred years ! 
At the close of the preceding paper I suggested, in the form 
of a question, that these people had: migrated in the most an- 
cient times from Central Asia. The fact that there is som 
mountain brook. This view I now find has already been sug- 
gested by Von Siebold. 
Professor Max Miiller, judging from the evidence of gram- 
matical structure, supposes there have been three great migra- 
tions from Central Asia toward the northern and northeastern 
parts of the continent, They are as follows: firstly, the an- 
_ cestors of the present Tungus, along the Amoor and the Lena ; 
secondly, the ancestors of the Mongols, in the region of the Al- 
tai mountains ; and thirdly, the ancestors of the Turks, in- 
cluding the Yakuts. 
Ina similar manner, but perhaps centuries before the first 
t these three migrations, we may suppose the Ainos to have 
\ryan family and to ae 
lan dynasty * (between 189 B. C. and 30 
ao-mim, Shoes bodies were covered with 
'* Von Siebold’s Elue. to Vries’ Voyage, p. 122. 
