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To check the conclusions which I have found it necessary to 
adopt, it would be important to compare thoroughly the lan- 
guage, manners, customs, religion, legends, &c.of the two peoples. 
The facts which I have been able to collect on these heads are 
unfortunately but of little significance. 
Dr. Carpenter, one of the few authors who admit the rela- 
tionship between the Hottentots and the Mongols, having asked 
Mr. Norris whether there existed any analogy between the 
languages of the two races, received a reply in the affirmative : 
‘ The affinities of the Hottentot language being rather con- 
nected, in his opinion, with the languages of High Asia, al- 
though the connecting links are extremely slight/ (Carpenter’s 
Human Physiology , 5th Ed. p. 897.) 
Prof. Schlegel, whom I have consulted on this subject, ad- 
vised me not to place too much confidence in so vague an 
assertion, and said that in his opinion the affinity in question 
would be very difficult, if not impossible, to demonstrate. 
Supposing, however, that there was no relationship between 
the two languages, it would still be no sufficient reason for 
denying the affinity between the races. The Chinese and the 
I Japanese, who, in an anthropological sense, are closely allied, 
speak languages so different that there would he great difficulty 
in discovering the slightest analogy between them. The Ainos 
justify the same remark. 
Moreover, the language of the Hottentots, in the course 
of centuries and under the influence of a number of circum- 
stances, may have been considerably modified. It is certain, 
however, that in Africa it has undergone no considerable alter- 
ation, since, as I have already pointed out, it has remained 
fundamentally different from the languages of the neighbouring 
peoples. 
As I had received from different sources, independent of 
each other and worthy of belief (among others from the present 
grand chief of the Korannas, Mossou Kyt Saaibosch), the com- 
munication of a legend, according to which the Korannas (and 
consequently also the other Hottentots) had arrived at the Cape • 
in boats after traversing the sea, the idea struck me that some 
striking event in the history of the Chinese, or of other 
Asiatics, had occasioned an emigration. But to the questions 
which I put on this point to M. Schlegel, the reply was negative. 
The Chinese in the fifteenth century only knew the eastern 
coast of Africa as far as Melinda (Dozy). 
We must notice, also, that at a period already far distant, 
; some Chinese, lost at sea, landed on the Isle of Bourbon, where 
their race is preserved to the present day, fairly pure (there 
were therefore women amongst them). M. Schlegel writes to 
me that, according to an oral communication of M. Grandidier, 
