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tempt." " Now I do not recollect," said Mr. De Koros, " that I gave my 

 opinion of Klaproth as it is given here, but oh ! Wilson was very, very," 

 and he shook his head significantly, " against Klaproth ; and he took this 

 opportunity to pull him down, and favour Remusat. It is very curious ;" 

 and he laughed heartily. Not being of the initiated in the curiosities 

 of Thibetan literature, I did not fully appreciate the jest ; but others 

 probably will, and I was greatly interested with the keen enjoyment 

 produced in the mind of the Ascetic, by this subject. 



At the same visit, he produced " Hodgson's Illustrations of the 

 Literature and Religion of the Buddhists," and asked me if I had seen it ; 

 on being told that I had a copy, and had been familiar with its contents in 

 progress of collection, although unversed in the subject ; he said, " He 

 sent me this copy ; it is a wonderful combination of knowledge on a 

 new subject, with the deepest philosophical speculations, and will as- 

 tonish the people of Europe ; there are however some mistakes in it." I 

 think he then said, " In your paper on the Limboos, you asked if the 

 appellation ' Hung/ distinctive of families of that tribe, had any re- 

 ference to the original * Huns,' the objects of my search in Asia. It is 

 a curious similarity, but your ' Hungs' are a small tribe, and the peo- 

 ple who passed from Asia, as the progenitors of the Hungarians, were 

 a great nation." I replied, that as the original country of the Limboo 

 " Hungs" was undoubtedly north of the Himalaya, and as he believed 

 the same to be the case as regarded the " Huns," it was at all events 

 possible, that the " Hungs" of this neighbourhood, might have been an 

 off-shoot from the same nation. " Yes, yes," he rejoined, " it is very 

 possible, but I do not think it is the case." And then, as if preferring to 

 luxuriate in remote speculations on his beloved subjects rather than in 

 attempting to put an end to them by a discovery near at hand, he gave 

 a rapid summary of the manner in which he believed his native land 

 was possessed by the original " Huns," and his reasons for tracing them 

 to Central or Eastern Asia. This was all done in the most enthusiastic 

 strain, but the texture of the story was too complicated for me to take 

 connected note of it. I gathered, however, from his conversation of this 

 day, and of the previous ones since our acquaintance, that all his hopes 

 of attaining the object of the long and laborious search, were centred in 

 the discovery of the country of the " Yoogars." This land he believed to 



