74 Actual Races in History, 



ogis still represent the original stock. The region 

 was one in which the summer lasts only two months, 

 a climate therefore corresponding to that of Fin- 

 land. They descended into Bokhara, and, over- 

 running Persia and Cabul, reached the basin of the 

 Indus. Eleven stations mark the route which the 

 Aryans followed before reaching the Ganges. Then 

 they advanced step by step, sending forward all the 

 time a vanguard of heroes who slew the Rakchassas, 

 and prepared the way for future conquests. That 

 single family has now accomplished such a migra- 

 tion, that to-day it is in the tropics and in the polar 

 circle too, reaching from the Gangetic peninsula 

 and Ceylon to Iceland and Greenland, where the 

 Norwegians and Danes took the place of the sea- 

 kings. It has spread over an immense region of 

 more or less temperate climate. And then, when 

 the era of great discoveries commenced, it distrib- 

 uted its colonies over the whole world, peopling 

 continents, and displacing more indigenous races. 



86. For there were other races before the Aryans, 

 and there have been others after them, on the same 

 ground. Such as had occupied the soil before 

 them were now mingled together, by the time the 

 Aryans supervened, and spread over all, reaching 

 to the western extremities of the European con- 

 tinent, though leaving extensive tracts untouched. 

 Thus to the North and South earlier races contin- 

 ued to hold their own. From the time of the com- 

 ing of the Aryans, documentary history describes 



