512 THE YELLOW RACES. 



between the most exaggerated of the yellow men and certain unmis- 

 takable white men. It is these transitional populations, if I may call 

 them so, which Prichard, in his desire to designate them by a single 

 collective name foreign to that great western body which he calls 

 Indo-European, had proposed "for the present" to call Allophylian 

 races. Thus he would have fused together, under a perfectly vague 

 appellation, groups as thoroughly distinct, for example, as the Basque, 

 the Finns, the Tschudes, the Ugrians, the Samoyedes, the Ostiaks, and 

 all those East Siberians collectively known under the name of Para- 

 lians, etc., a kind of enormous rising en masse of the incerta sedis 

 of the Old World ethnology. These Allophylians of Prichard, however 

 provisionally only the famous author of the Physical History of Mankind 

 may have wished to introduce them, have not yet entirely disappeared 

 from the language of anthropology. Some special writers have retained 

 them faithfully. It can, however, easily be seen that they are losing 

 ground every day, and in some of last year's lectures you may have 

 noticed that careful studies methodically pursued have perceptibly 

 diminished the geographical area of populations which till then had 

 been relegated into the caput mortuum of ethnological analysis, because 

 they were not known at all or only very vaguely known. 



But let us return to the series already classified, and having got rid 

 of Mongolians and Turks, let us pass on to the races of the Himalaya, 

 their southern and southeastern neighbors, grouped by Prichard under 

 the name of Indo-Tartars, and whom, on account of their geographical 

 position and of their affinities, we think it would be more proper to 

 call Indo-Mongolians. 



As far as scattered and incomplete observations will permit us to 

 judge, these people are in almost every aspect intermediate between 

 Turko-Mongolians and Indo-Chinese. In Tibet, where they call them- 

 selves Bhot, they show themselves to be near akin to the Mongolians, 

 with their high cheek bones, "bridled" eyes, and straight noses, which 

 are sometimes even convex, and in certain individuals sufficiently 

 developed to remind us of the redskins of the prairies of the Amer- 

 ican Plains of the Great West. Their skull is subbrachycephalous. 

 This type, very sharply marked on the high table-lands, gradually 

 becomes less decided as we descend into the lowlands. The crossings, 

 which gradually absorb it, are, moreover, of a greatly mixed nature, 

 borrowing here even from a more or less white race, and there from 

 Dravidians or Kolarians. In Assam, especially, our Indo-Mongolians 

 have contracted alliances with certain tribes of mountaineers, of whom 

 we shall have to say more after the first lectures of this year's course — 

 men who are very marked representatives of the Indonesian element, 

 and who will furnish the subject of our first studies in the ethnology 

 of the Malayan races. 



In Indo-China, as at the foot of the Himalaya, there are here and 

 there in the most elevated parts of the country small agglomerations of 



