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 .. . theDravidians to be drawn course of thearound by the valley of the l^^esGanges, skirting the south- Ceylon,eastern coast of the Indian peninsula toits southern extremity. Thence therace passed, by easy migration, into theisland of Ceylon, where it received per-haps its most characteristic is here that the modern 1 reddahs, ofwhom mention has been previouslymade, display the old race character inits
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 .. . theDravidians to be drawn course of thearound by the valley of the l^^esGanges, skirting the south- Ceylon,eastern coast of the Indian peninsula toits southern extremity. Thence therace passed, by easy migration, into theisland of Ceylon, where it received per-haps its most characteristic is here that the modern 1 reddahs, ofwhom mention has been previouslymade, display the old race character inits recent aspects. In the island, aswell as on the continent, however, thedominant Aryan peoples have pressed 510 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. upon the natives, until the latter nowrepresent only about thirty per cent ofthe whole population. In the prehistoricage all the aborigines of Ceylon were ofthe same Brown family with the peopleof Southern India and Eastern Beluchis-tan. At the present time the Dravid-ian population is compacted in the east-ern and southern parts of the island,where the eondition and character of therace are still subject to the study oftravelers and MODERN DKAVIDIANS—KOTA TYPESDrawn by P. Fritel, from a photograph. Returning to what may be called theintersection of the original Browm andTheMaiayo-chi- Ruddy races of mankindH^SES in Afghanistan, we findBurmese. that the first principal Asi- atie stream of the former family was theMalayo-Chinese departure. This tookits course in the direction of the UpperPunjab, and crossed directly to theeast into Thibet. There appears, how-ever, to have been thrown off to thesoutheast, into the Himalayas, a branchof this family, which is at the present time represented by the Lohito tribes,between the Ganges and the are evidently Mongoloids, andmust thus be in race alliance with theThibetans north of the mountains. Asecond stream carried down the Burmeseto their destination on the east coast ofthe b
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