2 On the Indo-Chinese borderers. [No. 1. 



because such deviations of a known kind afford inestimable means of 

 testing those which are unknown, and of thus approximating to a just 

 appreciation of the interminable varieties of speech, that characterise 

 the enormously extended family of the Mongolidse. 



I am indebted for these vocabularies to Captain Phayre whose 

 name is a warrant for their authenticity, and who has kindly added 

 to their value by the subjoined explanatory note upon the Arrakan 

 tribes. On those of the Tenasserim provinces the only elucidatory 

 addition is the important one that theTung-lhu are "Hillmen," that 

 is, dislocated aborigines driven to the wilds, or, in other words, 

 broken and dispersed tribes, like the Khyeng and Kami and Ktimi 

 and Mrii and Sak of Arrakan, whose vocables constitute the greatest 

 part of the first half of the vocabularies herewith forwarded. 



In the course of recording in our Journal these numerous vocabu- 

 laries, I have purposely avoided any remarks on the affinities tbey 

 suggest or demonstrate, intending to take up that subject when they 

 should be completed : but the high interest* excited by my Hima- 

 layan series, in connexion with the bold and skilful researches which 

 are now demonstrating the unparalleled diffusion over the earth of 

 that branch of the human family to which the Himalayans belong, 

 has induced me on the present occasion to deviate partially from that 

 rule and to at once compare Captain Phayre' s Arrakanese vocables 

 with my own Himalayanf and Tibetan ones. Having been so for- 

 tunate as lately to procure an ample Sifanese series, comprising the 

 tongues of the several peoples bordering on China and Tibet between 

 Kokonur and Yiinan, and having moreover made some progress in a 

 careful analysis of a normal and of an abnormal sample of the Hima- 

 layan tongues, with a view to determining the amounts of the 

 Turanian and Arian elements, I shall ere long find occasion to recur 

 to the general affinities of the Indian Mongolidse. In the meanwhile 

 the subjoined comparison of several Arrakanese tongues with those 

 of Tibet and of the Eastern Himalaya will be read with surprise and 

 pleasure by many who, accustomed to regard the Himalayans as 

 Hindus, and the Indo-Chinese, like the Chinese, as distinct from the 



* Latham's History of Man and Ethnology of British Colonies. 

 f My own Himalayan series will be found in the Journal, No. 185 for Dec. 

 1847. The Arracanese series is annexed hereto. 



