. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. , saysReclus, are the Mixedofficials, sons population,of Greorgian or Circassianwomen, and descendedfrom all the nationswhich have contributedto the harems. Amongthe Osmanli also areclassed the descendantsof Arabs and of negroesfrom every quarter ofAfrica, brought by theslave-trade. In manycities of Asia Minor agreat proportion of thepopulation is evidentlycrossed with negroe
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. , saysReclus, are the Mixedofficials, sons population,of Greorgian or Circassianwomen, and descendedfrom all the nationswhich have contributedto the harems. Amongthe Osmanli also areclassed the descendantsof Arabs and of negroesfrom every quarter ofAfrica, brought by theslave-trade. In manycities of Asia Minor agreat proportion of thepopulation is evidentlycrossed with negroes. The Greeks of AsiaMinor, abounding in allthe coast districts, occupy the Ionian coast and islands almost are for the most part the descendants of the old lonians, xhe Greeks ofbut can scarcely be considered a pure race. It is by their re- -^^^^ profession and practices that they are most clearly of Greeks being expelled by the Turks, as was formerly so oftenthe case, the Greeks are gaining ground on the Turks, by their unscrupu-lousness and keenness in money matters and trickery. It cannot bedenied that the Greek shows himself much more capable—more of an. AEMENIAN WOMEN OF PONTUS COAST. 480 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. all-round man of business; and that, taking up every learned as well asSuccess mercantile profession, he manages to get hold of the bestin business, things for liimself. His schools are an absorbing care. TinTurk was a warrior developed out of a predatory nomad; ceasing to Ix-a warrior, he seems to lack the power of becoming much else, and i>declining. Many Greeks by descent, however, use the Turkish language ;but, thanks partly to their religion, the Asiatic Greeks are ail imbuedwith the sentiment of patriotism, and feel themselves one with theinhabitants of Greece, Some time there may yet be a Greek empirewhich shall include Asia Minor. Greek populations, scarcely changed in the course of two thousand
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