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our grown-up curiosity with its choicest satisfac-
tion. Western *influence*, beginning probably not
later than the Alexandrian conquests, seems to me
well established; western *origin* of the body of the
people of that age seems to me not established, and
even improbable.
The body of the people were perhaps always, as
now, related in blood to the Mongol-Tartar family
—well represented by their near neighbours of the
mountains, the shepherd Kirghiz. Some of these
would gradually form permanent settlements in the
foot-hills of the great ranges, where grazing and
irrigation-agriculture could be combined. Then as
the knowledge of the latter method grew, its ex-
tensions would form the great oases, having perma-
nent cities, which would become permanent marts.
To the modification of type due to this change in
occupation and physical surroundings would be
added the blood change due to the incoming of
traders from other lands. A nomadic people is of
stable type—mixture of blood being almost impos-
sible. But no city-dwelling people, having markets
even measurably open to the world, can long remain
of pure stock.
Returning to the Yue-che invasion, and assuming
it to have been followed by a period of assimilation
of victor by vanquished, the two having an under-
lying kinship, antedating the fixed settlements of
the Tarim people, and postdating their uplift by
Aryan influence, we come, in the Chinese chronicles,
to a conquest by the Chinese themselves. That
was the beginning of a hold upon Kashgaria which
has continued, sometimes shadow, sometimes sub-
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