The Ethnology of India. 147 
I have before alluded to the Hazarahs beyond Cabul and Ghuznee, 
who come down to Peshawar and the Punjab for labour. This name 
“‘Hazarah” has no connection with that of the Cis-Indus district 
so called from a town of that name. These Hazarahs are Persian in 
speech, Sheeah in religion, and decidedly Mongol in feature, charac- 
teristics, which would seem to tally with the story of their having 
been a body of slaves in the train of some Mahomedan conqueror; 
but whether this is really historical, I cannot say. They are very 
- independent and industrious, decidedly a good race. 
The people of Ghilgit are the farthest Arians of the country whence 
the Indus flows. ‘To the north the people are of Turkish race, and in 
the valley of the Indus above the junction with the Ghilgit river are 
the Bultees of Iskardo, &c. The language of the Bultees is decidedly 
Thibetan, and their features show a large proportion of the blood of that 
“race. Some of it may be, as they say, that of Alexander, for anything I 
know to the contrary; but we should hardly have heard of it, if they 
had not been Mahomedans. They are Sheeahs, as are several tribes in 
those higher countries, a circumstance which has not been explained. 
They seem to be a good, stout, quiet race. The Maharajah of 
Cashmere (who rules the country) has enlisted many ef them inte 
his service, apparently with advantage. 
In the upper valleys of the Sutlej, in Spiti, Hemiawen &e. there are 
mixed races exhibiting much Thibetan blood, and apparently more 
Buddhist than Hindu in religion. A very Thibetan-looking colony 
used to be settled at Mahasoo just beyond Simla, and people of that 
race did much of the heavier work, carrying wood on their backs. 
They are powerful, gaddy-looking people, and as entirely unlike 
Indians as anything one can imagine. The women especially are 
remarkably fine females in an industrial sense; but in other respects, 
whatever they may be from a Turanian point of view, they are not 
likely to be dangerous to the Arian visitors to the sanatarium. 
From this point for many hundred miles to the east, all the passes, 
the very crests and ceytres ef the passes through the snowy range, are 
occupied by a peculiar tribe who almost monopolise the trade across, 
principally carried on upon the backs of sheep. They also cultivate 
some land. They are known as the ‘‘ Bhooteas,”’ but that is so wide 
a word (in fact identical with Thibetan) that it is little guide to us. 
