ABSTRACT
The Tunguse, Mongolians, and a great part of the Turkish race, formed originally, according to all external organic tokens, as well as the elements of their languages, hut one people, closely allied with the Esquimaux, the Skraling, or dwarf of the Norsemen, and the races of the New World. All researches as to the manner in which America was populated lead to one inevitable conclusion. The Ainos were described, under the name of Hairy People, in "The Book of Mountains and Seas," a Chinese work, written in the second or third century, and richly adorned with wonderful legends. All the numerous Tartaric hordes dwelling about the north-east of the Central Empire were termed by the civilised natives of the South "Tonghu," "Eastern Red Men," or savages, from which appellation we derive our word Tunguse, which has been subsequently applied to an extremely limited portion of the entire race.
