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 .. . neity. It is „ ° J Race character more mixed than either of the modemthe Turkish or the Russianstock. In Central Persia the ancient raceof Iranians is represented in tolerablepurity in the descendent people. Butall around the borders this is not the west, and particularly the south- THE IK. IA~L I XS.—E THNIC DIIVSIONS. 621 west, there is a strong admixture ofTurkish blood. On the north andnortheast the Mo
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 .. . neity. It is „ ° J Race character more mixed than either of the modemthe Turkish or the Russianstock. In Central Persia the ancient raceof Iranians is represented in tolerablepurity in the descendent people. Butall around the borders this is not the west, and particularly the south- THE IK. IA~L I XS.—E THNIC DIIVSIONS. 621 west, there is a strong admixture ofTurkish blood. On the north andnortheast the Mongol stock of man-kind has made itself felt and given atinge to the race complexion; while onthe side of Afghanistan and Beluehis-tan, Indian or Hindu characteristics arcplainly discoverable. The Persians at the present time num- nomadic in habit. These number hardlyfewer than four million. They consti-tute the great intermediate body of Per-sians, and are the element upon which theShahs government most relies in thematter of the Persian army. The nationalforces, however, are recruited to an ex-tent from the wilder tribesmen; whilethe official classes, commanders and the. KURD TYPES.—Drawn by F. Courboin, from a pbotograph. ditions of thePersian pop-ulation. ber approximately eight million. OfClasses and con- these nearly two millionare townspeople. Aboutan equal number are Hi vats,or nomads, of whom we shall presentlyspeak. Between these two extremes ofstationary citizens and wandering tribes-men there is a large intermediate classof villagers who are more sedentary than like, are derived from the townspeopleor citizens who correspond to the aristoc-racy of Western Europe. No class of the Persian population isof greater interest to the Ethnic placetraveler and ethnographer %?™™TOfthan the Iliyats, or wander- herdsmen. Of these, the mannerof life is pastoral rather than agricultural.
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