Page.
Paragraph 2. Description of the Hindoos
in General ....... . . .............................................. 233
Paragraph 3. Of the physical characters
..prevalent among particular races, and in
particular districts in India .................... .;:.2.38
1. Of the Rajputs of Rajast’han ......... 238
2. People of the Panjab......v, ............ 239
3. Physical characters of the Sindhians 240
4. Of tifcte Sikhs ........................................ 240
Native tribes of Kattiwar...... ...................... . 242
Section 8. Concluding remarks on the tribes of people inhabiting
Hindustan and the Dekhan, and on their
- relations to other Asiatic 244
CHAPTER X III.
Of the Hdikanian or the Armenian Race.
Section 1. Name and land of the Haïkani.............................. .^230'
Section 2. History o f the Haïkanian people’ ....... "i..............253
Section 3. Of the physical character of thé Armenians.... 260
CHAPTER X i r .
Of the K a rtli, Karfulian, or Georgian' Race.
Section 1. Name and land of the Georgians—Tribes of this
race . . . . . . .A.....A. ...............................A... 231
Section 2. History of the Georgians and of their literature 263
Note on the history of the Orpelians or supposed
Chinese colony ...... .1...............268
CHAPTER X Y .
Of the Ca/ueasian Nations.
Section 1. General observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...A............. 273
Section 2. Nations of the western Caucasus ........ 274
Section 3. Nations of the middle and eastern Caucasus ... 275
CHAPTER XYI.
History of the Nations of Great Tartary.
Section 1. General survey—Physical geography and boundaries'of
High Asia ........................................ .. 277
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'' Paragraph 2‘J Subdivisions—-Interior coun-
^$m?3lof High A sia—Surrounding countries 288
Section^ . ' ‘D f Éiê^^^s^f^peoptó who still inhabit, or may be
^ supposât t o 1hâve® originated- from High Asia 291
o^ tiOn§3.* Of the^^u^p^pT ihfofALStfö'n' on the history of
Tartary ................... 297
Section f.'^Of^thé' Tun^gusfan^;ra'ce, comprehending the
’ ‘ •'Mahdshlibs^ TnüA^-hoïî'sf Kin, Khitans, and
. : f... :.... /:.A A. . . :r.. ..v.. 299
Se^tionTS'. Historyw^’ÜLÔ-Tu*rkisli^ra^^@f^the Hioif^-nu,
ThiükïS'or Turks ? of Mount TAïthï, and of
the Ouigoiifs \ ...... . . . ' . A A............ 304
PdragrapÉf^. * Description of the Hiong-nu 307
Paragraph 2. Of the Thu-kiu or Turks of
Altaï 7.......................V.......... ilO
• Paragraph' 3. Of the Ouigours or ahciently-
1 civiliseid?Turks .'....... .-.........^........ ............. 311
Noté on the art of writing among the Oui-
*' gours . .. . . ............................... .....— ...... 313
Section^ . Histdtjfm*' the "Turkish race continued—Subdivi-
• • ‘ siens—1Turkish invasions anterior to the Mon-
* gdlian^era Arh.Y.\ v?/3*«...........^........ 318
Paragraph 1. Turkish inroads prior to thé
' age' of ’’Tschihgghis. . I1? ..’................'.. 318
1. The Kiptachakap^- Comanians ............ 321
2t The Peifchehejfe#' .i.»............... 322
‘ «3. The^CH^irS^T'r^.'.A'.’ ............... . 322
4. The Avars and Bulgarians .................... 324
Section 7. History, ó f the Mong^l^n ra c e ............. ................. 329
Paragraph 2 .'Of-the early history of the
Mongolp^ibeftne Tschingghis-khan ........ 336
Section 8. Turkish nations formed on the subdivisons of the
Mongolian empire-:—Aeeou^t of this division 340
Section. 9. Turkish tribes in the Khanates of Kiptschak or -
western Turkistan ......... .............................. 342
Section 10. Of the Turkish;nations of Jagataï Turkistan ... 347
Paragraph 1. Of the* Seljukiyan and- Os«
manli or Ottoman Turks ...... . ........ . 347
Paragraph^2. Of the .present inhabitants
of Jagataï Turkistan—Of the Uzbeks ... 350