THE IT H If O LOOT OF THK IHDIAR ARCHIPBtAiW. 



It is. chiefly amongst the Himalayan and Tibeto-Tamulian tribe* 

 (hat the prototypes of the earlier Malay u-Polynaaian development 

 are found. It wu here that by the contact of Mongolian and 

 quasi Caucasian forma,* the peculiar Tiheto-Indian physical type wai 

 produced which has not been more completely preserved in the 

 Gangetic basin itself, than amongst the earlier Mafayu-Polynesian 

 tribes, or those which bare remained unaffected by later Transindian 

 and Indian inauencea in Borneo, the Tranajuvan chain, 8. E. 

 Indonesia and Polviusia. The ethnic connection in other respects 

 la eo great and striking that we cannot separate the Gangetic 

 from the Polynesian races by a very wide interval of time, that ii 

 not more probably than 5,000 years.! 



The Polynesian has Rtrouper affinities tiian any other Aaianesian 

 language to a Gangetic linguistic development of which that of the 

 Kliasia^ now located in the A earn mountains, is the most eastern 



Compare tbe Polynesian, tb* least Turanian of the Tibetc- Indian . nguagea and the 

 least Semitic or almnleat of the African on the one aide, and the Harness and 

 Tibetan, on the other, with the La u- Chinese family. The proto-GengetL: languages 

 appear to have been more archaic than the Tibetan and Tamilian, and liavu probacy 

 wider Geologic ronnecUons titan either. 



Tlie Burmese is Intm-mediate between the Chinese and the Tibetan, itto 

 «*»<yit": ' wiov.lhiriic. and tonic, mr. lis airier ure, cotlochh-. am! m-id* '-sing 

 particles are deddedly Tibetan and dlattogtnah It from the Lao and Anata. The 

 woto- Burmese probably occupied some portion of the country on the boundaries or 

 China and Tibet: Many other mmnacdW languages may have existed, and iame 

 are probably still preserred. 



* Al^onib 1 rhir.k both pfayarcal and llngufitic evti'enee rrfjnlre ut to admit 

 an e-»ly Ganaeile race wbieb e»noot be accurstely dtic Ibed ee either An teen. 

 T«w»ollio or Tibcian, tbe c.u.ti which nodded iia pbyiieal character are atill 

 eh«cur*. On ©'impaling the prs to Gangetic lan|0«nei (Kbaeta, Bodo, Dblsesl 

 aV ) with ilia T-muilan or S. Indian, lb* lalter apprat to ba at a* eooatdtf able 

 a icmof* rum them in the cfcele of pro- Iranian IfaiaWtia dmlnprnre.*, that I 

 pwfrr to coondt. ^tm at forming a separate group. Toay ba«a alao d »*tae>1*« 

 features when sur< pared with the Tib* We. I tbtnk therefore tbi( notil Mr 

 iWiiou aMtlaa tha mIm. I» 10 »tees«iia ibree pra-A-yn Indlest 



groups. Tbe queei- Iranian phyiical character *blcb m*<lm«d the A<no*a I at 

 the W, ted 8. and iha Titetea to lbs N and E muat ! Ibi ' be refcrrrd to iba 

 proxioiiiy at b, W. Anaa tfiota parching of the teat phyiicl type. 

 One loaf eonUe«»d iitfla*, or series of aeeaacaU. from lue re|l"n to ihe 

 •f Iba Mat, may hate pbjiically mod fled twih the indo Africans and iba 

 Indo Tibataat/ There la no reieVnea that »h* Gangeile boale »a a wbala erer 

 r<crl»rd a Maelble Mm of Africa- Indiana. In a re*lon which baa received ae 

 varied a aaeoeaabo of recre, (ba pbriieil lha Unguium and the oihar ath .io 

 tralta of a particular tribe, may point diffare.it weya, aa oUta iuppaoa ifl 

 AiUnMlo, 



i The Indian rise of the Brahmeolc cMltoetlon and nowrr ib probably not older 

 than 4000 years! If ao old. We ratut allow 1000 years at least for their oceupailaa 

 and ttnn<c meUrW»rTJ»iia of the xalley of the Ganges, tor ther aeem to hare besa 

 kM citabUshed at toe era of tl»e ounteet which Carmi the subject of the 

 hhnrat Tbe quasi- Iranian tSn^e of tie Tioeto-Indlan tribei In the Himalaya, the 

 Vtndoat and tile C^ngeiic Talley belong* to a pre- Brahmank IraniiinurD and 

 anignitions to the eastward must have taken place long before the Uraiunan* 

 dominated iu tha' basin. , . ,. ,. , 



I The name dirt da us lo the Himalayan baafne to the west of the Kali eel ed 

 *La Tin^s Puratiaa, and e^en beyond the Gan«etlc basin to KarAmir. In this 



