Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . distan, tolake Van and the up-per valley of the Tigris. \ chiefs, and engaged in almost constantOne might well suppose, glancing at warfare. Of these, the most conspicu-the fruitful and luxurious valleys of J ous example is the ferocious Bakhti-Luristan, that any people long dwelling j yari, whose name is proverbial in West-there would abandon the nomadic life i ern Asia. The only town of any im- M.—Vol. i—40 618
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . distan, tolake Van and the up-per valley of the Tigris. \ chiefs, and engaged in almost constantOne might well suppose, glancing at warfare. Of these, the most conspicu-the fruitful and luxurious valleys of J ous example is the ferocious Bakhti-Luristan, that any people long dwelling j yari, whose name is proverbial in West-there would abandon the nomadic life i ern Asia. The only town of any im- M.—Vol. i—40 618 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. portance within the limits of Luristan isKhorramabad, which is said to contain„ a thousand lints. The Prevalence of the wandering place is rudely fortified, life in Luristan. -. ... -, and possesses the palaceof the chieftain of the Lures. The next ereat division of the Iranic si van, or Persians. They are the mostwidely distributed of any of the existingIranic families. They are even dis-persed into districts far beyond the lim-its of their own countries. Their lan-guage is Persic, and is the best repre-sentative, or rather lineal descendant, of. MOURNERS WAILING.—Drawn by Y. Pram\hnikoff, after a sketch of Madame Carla Serena. Place and character of theTajiks, or Par-sivan. race, distributed eastward of the Luresand the other westernPersian tribes, includes theTajiks. These people arespread from Kabul northward to Badakh-shan, to the table-land of Pameer, andinto Bokhara, in Central Turkistan. Onthe east they lie against the Afghans andBeluchs. Westward, they spread intoall Central Persia, and are called Par- the ancient Iranian speech. By themalso was preserved, until the conquestof the country by the Mohammedans,the deteriorated or fire-worship aspectof the old Zoroastrian faith. After theconquest they became Mohammedans,the old religion being preserved only bythe Guebers. In stature, person, and complexionthe Tajiks are intermediate between
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