148 The Ethnology of India. 
I believe that there are some very curious tribes m valleys wear 
and immediately beyond the snows, but I have not the means of 
specifying them. 
As respects the Himalayas generally, the following may, I think, be 
said. From Cashmere eastwards, all the easily accessible portions of 
the Himalayas are occupied by perfectly Arian Hindus, as: far as the 
eastern border of Kumaon and the Kalee river, separating that Pro- 
vince from the Nepal dominions; the Thibetans being here confined to 
the valleys about and beyond the snow. Throughout the whole 
length of Nepal again people of Thibetan blood have partially flooded 
over into the Nepal country, have there met and intermixed with 
other races, and. have formed mixed tribes who appear to be generally 
(the proper Goorkhas perhaps excepted) more Thibetan than Indian 
in physiognomy and speech, but are or affect to be more Indian than 
Thibetan in religion and manners, doubtless under the influence of ~ 
the dominant “ Khas.” East of Nepal, in Sikkim and Bhootan, 
Mhibetans are altegether dominant, and the Hindu element almost 
disappears. The soldiers whom we erroneously call ‘ real Goorkhas’ 
are mostly of the Gurang and Magar tribes of western Nepal. Their 
features are ultra-Mongohan, but they are small, whereas the Thibe- 
tans are generally large. Of their pluck and energy there can be neo- 
doubt. At the Simla Government School, the children from a 
Goorkha Regiment were found at least to equal, in fact rather to beat 
the Hindus. They themselves affect to be Hindus, and stoutly 
deny being Buddhists, though they are free from most disagreeable 
Hindu prejudices. The Newars, the cultivating peasantry of the 
valley of Nepal, are stated to have Thibetan loeking features, with a 
fair and ruddly complexion. Both their language and that of the 
Gurangs and Magars seem to be in the main Thibetan, at least in 
the fundamental numerals, pronouns, &e. Stilk more is it so as 
regards the languages of the tribes farther east, Kerantis, Murmis, 
and others, of whom I know little. 
The Lepchas of Sikkim and Lopas of Bhopgtan are unmitigated 
Buddhist Thibetans. There seem to be several tribes of ‘ Rong,” 
“ Khampas” or Kambas, and Limboos, who come from different parts: 
of Thibet, and there are some differences of language. The Lepcha 
tribes are described as a dirty, good-natured people, in character said 
