514 THE YELLOW RACES. 



Saigon, as at Batavia, Manila, etc., grandchildren retain next to no 

 mark of their grandfathers. 



In the pursuance of our investigations, and while getting gradually 

 farther and farther away from the initial Mongolian type, we have 

 examined in its minutest details the Indo-Chinese or Trans -Gangetic 

 branch; then we have anahyzed two other groups of races, of far less 

 importance, and which, before my own researches, had never been 

 thought of as constituting small ethnical groups of their own. 



The first of these small branches, broken off, if we may say so, from 

 Prichard's allophylous bush, comprehends the majority of the popu- 

 lations of the northeastern coasts from the Sea of Okhotsk to the penin- 

 sula of Alaska, Koriaks, Kamchadals, Chukluks, Chukchis on the 

 shores of Asia, Aleuts, or Ununguns in America, on the islands and 

 at the point of the peninsula, which constitute this ethnical group 

 of 25,000 men at best, imperfectly bounded no doubt, especially east- 

 ward, but existing beyond all doubt. It is interesting to ascertain that 

 the geographical area of this group, which until now has had no name 

 of its own, exceeds the size of the Continent of Asia and very evidently 

 encroaches upon the New World. We shall later on meet with other 

 similar facts, which, we are convinced, will not fail to throw a certain 

 light upon the fact that the majority of the tribes of the New Conti- 

 nent owe their origin to Asiatic ancestors. 



However this may be, we place systematically after the Tibetans 

 and the Indo-Chinese, who are subbrachycephalous, the Chukluks, 

 whose average indication, 79.9, stands at the extreme limit of mesati- 

 cephally, and not far from them, the Tungus-Manchu (300,000 indi- 

 viduals), another breaking up of Prichard's " Allophylians," with their 

 clearly mesaticephalous skull, which is at the same time excessively 

 flattened. This is, I repeat, an entirely systematic process; we shall 

 be justified in pursuing it, since it has enabled us to avail ourselves of 

 the only characteristic features which are known with tolerable accu- 

 racy, the anatomical features. For they alone permit us, thanks to 

 their clearly pronounced nature, to form a small, quite solid group, 

 which may later on serve as a startiug point for new efforts at classifi- 

 cation. The whole of this remotest Siberia, the whole of this grand 

 northern China, are territories overrun by small agglomerations of 

 Nomads, which are usually only known by a few, rare photographs 

 and a few tools seen here and there in collections. There are certainly 

 among them some who, according to Pruner-Bey's expression, establish 

 a connection with the boreal American. The Ghiliak of the Trans- 

 Amour appears thus like a kind of intermediary between the Tungus 

 and limit or Eskimo. 



This last group, which contains 27,000 to 28,000 individuals, consti 

 tutes an ethnical whole of its own, relatively quite homogeneous, 

 which once more presents to us the sight of a race having one end of 

 its habitat in Asia, but having slowly reached, all along the boreal 



