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them, and are very good cultivators in their own simple way. They 
are not particularly dark, and, im addition to the ordinary breadth and 
flatness of face, have a good deal of the Chinese-looking form of eye ; 
so that it is difficult from appearance to say, whether they really 
belong to the Negrito, or to the Indo-Chinese stock. The fact is that 
though no two races can be more unlike one another than the slim, 
black, tangled-haired Negrito, and the stout, fair, lank haired 'Thibetan, 
yet when we come to half-breeds, the difference may not be so great. 
When the colour is softened or heightened, and the size increased or 
decreased to that of the ordinary Hindoo, and the hair reduced to 
civilised limits, there is the same appearance of breadth and flatness of 
face, and these latter characteristics are more apparent at a glance than 
any distinction between prognathous and pyramidal skulis. It would 
seem too that the Chinese peculiarity of eye is caused by the broad 
cheek bone common to both races, and perhaps it may be that 
while the eye being sunk deeper in the Negro and Negrito, and more 
covered by a more fleshy form of face its form is not so apparent, in 
the half-breed it is brought out, and the skin tightened by the high 
cheek-bone shows the Chinese-looking form of eye. I have noticed 
some of the Ghatwals on the borders of Bengal and Behar, who looked 
not unlike Goorkas. Thus then it becomes difficult to distinguish 
those tribes, on the northern and eastern frontiers, whose blood may be 
supposed to have become a good deal mixed by long contact with: 
other races, and whose colour may have been softened by the cool, moist 
and shady climate of the Northern Terai. 
I must also say that I think Hodgson has somewhat contributed to 
mix up the two races in our ideas, for in his enthusiasm to establish a 
connection between his Tamulians and the eastern races, he scarcely 
attempts to distinguish them, and classes as Tamulians, Bodos, Dhimals, 
é&c. of whose connection with the Aborigines of the South of India 
there does not seem to be the slightest evidence in language, and 
who in appearance are as different as can be. 
To return to the ‘ Tharoos,;’ as I said their appearance might leave 
doubt of their origin, and unfortunately they are not known to have any 
language of their own. Those with whom we have come more imme- 
diately in contact (including all those in eastern Rohilcund) certainly 
now speak Hindee, but the tribe isso large and important, that it 
