OF TITE IITDO-PACtf IC ISLAZTDS. 



he raeeircd, in soma of the details, as supplementary to Bee. 2 of 

 chap. iv. ^ 



To show how Mr ITodgaon's Si-faii vocabularies affect the 

 geiieral inferences at whkth I had arrived^ 1 may be allowed to 

 refer to some of the earlier portions of this aeriea of papers. In 

 the 2nd section of that ** on the ethnology of South-Eiwtern Asia" 

 (vol. iv, for 1850, p. 464) the following remarks were made on the 

 distribution of the Tibetan tribes. 



" The western or inner division is chiefly occupied by the Tibetan 

 tribea who possess the whole of the great trana-Himahiyan depres- 

 sion which slopes westward to the margin of the Hindu-Kimsh, 

 forming the transalpine basin, of the Indus, and eastward to the 

 unknown point where the basin of the Zangho bends south and 

 sends its waters into the basin of the Brahmaputra or of the 

 Irawadi. They have even extended to the S. East and entered the 

 upper part of the eastern basiu of tlio Brahmaputra where they are 

 in contact with the Misbmi. Tibetan tribes and others allied to 

 thetn have spread over the basin of the Granges, although they are 

 now chiefly confined to tlie Himalayas, the Yindyaa and the basin 

 of the Brahmapntra. In the baaui of the Brahmaputra they are 

 blended with allied tribea of the Mayama family* Rude Tibetan 

 tribes of nomadic predacious habits, known in Tibet chiefly under 

 the generic name of Kham and in China under that of Si-fan, are 

 spread over all Tibet to the northward of the depression of the 

 Indus and Zangbo, and eastward along the greater part of the 

 eastern margin of the inner div^isiou to a considerable distance 

 witliin the boundaries of the Chinese Provinces.* They probably 

 come in contact with the inner tribes of the Brahmaputra and 

 Irawadi basins, and are intermixed with the moat westerly Chinese 

 tribes and the Mongolian tribes who chiefly occupy the northern 

 and N. E. portions of Tibet. 



"The ethnology of the E, middle division is very obscure, and will 

 probably prove to be of extraordinary interest. In a region of 

 wMoh a great portion is inaccessible from lofty mountams and 

 snow, many of the inhabited districts must still *bo secluded. 

 Numerous petty tcibes must retain their ancient independence and 



• They are fomtd to i lie wi's! of llic Yuliutg and prolmbly hi some ^Ucea rtiBch 

 to tbe Ytui-ling oiountaina. 



