1858.] On the Kiranti tribe of the Central Himalaya. 453 



Himalayan type, though upon the whole Mongolian, is not to be 

 judged, (any more than the African one by the negro) by the Kalmak 

 exaggeration of that type ; and moreover, that the type exhibits 

 here, as to the north and to the south of us, a large range of variation, 

 indicating, like the lingual type, that the Himalaya has been peopled 

 by successive immigrations of northmen belonging to many, pro- 

 bably to all, of the various subfamilies into which the restless progeny 

 of Tur has been (I think prematurely) divided by European philo- 

 logists and ethnologists. I think, moreover, that I can discern this 

 sort of accord between the physical and lingual types, to wit, that 

 the tribes with simple languages have more, and the tribes with 

 complex languages have less, of the Mongolian physical attributes, 

 after careful elimination of the presumed effects of mixture of 

 breed (and such facts are always notorious on the spot) where such 

 mixture has taken place. Thus, a Lepcha or Gurung or Magar or 

 Murmi to a simple language unites a palpable Mongolian phy- 

 siognomy and frame, whilst a Kuswar, Dhimali or a Kiranti with 

 a language much allied to the higher Turkic, Ugrofinnic and Dravi- 

 dian type* possesses a face and form tending the same way. 



I will now describe my samples, adding, lest I should be supposed 

 to have selected them unfairly, that they are men long in my own 

 service. 



Dimensions in English feet and inches. 



(1) Bontawa (2) Bahing (3) Thulung 



Total height, 5 4 500 520 



Crown to hip, 2 50 220 230 



Hip to heel, 3 20 2 110 300 



Eore and aft length of head, ... 9 ^ 08f 8 i 



Side to side width of Ditto, 60 6 £ 060 



Girth of Ditto, 1 9 i 1 9 | 180 



Breadth of face, 5 £ 5 f 5 { 



Length of arm and hand, 250 2 3 i 240 



Girth of arm, 10 9 f 9 i 



Ditto of fore arm, 9 i 9 f 10 



* The complex pronomenalization of the Kiranti verb, points to a special 

 connexion with Muller's Munda subdivision. 



