IN DO-CHINA, 



cultivated — Annameae under Chinefie r Siamese and Burmese undor 

 Hindu influences. Hence Atmnmeee has borrowed a large number 

 nf Chinese words, and is written in characters derived directly from 

 the Chinese hieroglyphic system. In the same way, most of tho 

 iSmiiiciw mid liiirniL'Si" hiari-words nro tak<'u indirectly fro: 1 1 Sanskrit 

 through the Pali, the h acred language of the Buddhists, and are 

 written with alphabets derived from the snnio source. Hero 

 again we see bow completely appropriate to this region is the term 

 Imhi-Chinnu 



Non-Hongolic B&ces r — Besides tho Mongol it* „ reci'riE I'Vcndi 

 exploration I ins revealed the presence of a second element, centred 

 mainly in CambojK tagd the 1 9ntnpB country, in the extreme south* 

 eastem corner of tho peninsula. This clement, represented by tho 

 old Camboj* (Khmer) stock, by the Cham* (Tsiams), Kflyw, Sliojigs, 

 Charays. and some other semi-civilised aboriginal tribes, is distin- 

 guished by physical characteristics npproaebing the Caueasic type 

 of Western Asia and Europe. The same Camiisic type occurs 

 amongst the Lolo, Moaso, and tunny other aboriginal peoples in the 

 borderlands between China, Lndo-Cbiun, and Tibet, possibly indi- 

 cating the route followed by this stream of Caticasie migration from 

 Central Asia to the south-eastern extremity of the Continent. The 

 Kuys (Khmer-dom, or primitive Camhojnns of west Cambojn), tho 

 Clmrays, Stiengs, and other non-Mongolic tribes of this region, are 

 described generally as abuve the middle size, often with wavy hair, 

 light brown or fair complexion, and more or leas regular European 

 features, in a word, 4 'white savages of Caucasian type" (C. E, 

 BuUlcvaiLx}, Their nntttrted speech also is fundamentally distinct 

 from that of the toned isolating group, in Home respects L>eLraying 

 marked affinities with the Oceanic, or Mai ay o- Polynesian linguistic 

 family. This is true especially of the dialects spoken in the 

 uplands between Aunam and tho Mekhong basin by the Chains 

 (Tsiams), Sbeveas, Charays, Rade'lis, and other tribes whom some 

 writers regard as scattered fragments of the Champa Stute, which 

 formorly comprised moat of Cochin-Chum and the Mekhong delta 

 region. Bat whether these peoples represent a comparatively recent 

 immigration of true Malaya from Malaysia, or the original stock 

 whence the Malays pnysi-d from tlie mainland to the Eastern 

 Archipelago, is a question which cannot here be discussed. 



In the subjoined table are comprised ail the Indo-Chinese races 

 with their chief sub-divisions* 



