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stance, until to-day. This conquest is definitely
placed in the first century of our era. It may have
been preceded by an intermediate wave of Mongols
—the Hueng-nu (Huns) who were the cousins and
enemies of the Yue-che. Indeed the earlier move-
ment of the Yue-che was due to the pressure upon
them by the Hueng-nu, who were constant dis-
turbers of the peace on China's north-eastern fron-
tier until, shortly before the date last mentioned,
they had been worsted by the Emperor's armies and
were streaming westward, eventually to work their
fatal course across Europe. They moved chiefly
along the easier line through Dzungaria, north of
Turkestan; but it is not improbable that they sent
minor streams southward to infiltrate among the
populations which had been vanquished by those
whom they themselves had vanquished one or two
centuries earlier. Such additions (probably not nu-
merous), to the Tarim people might have disturbed
some of its centres, but would not have seriously
altered the general racial status. Nor indeed does
this status seem to have been largely affected by the
advent of the civilised Chinese for whom this distant
region was but a military frontier and a tribute-field,
not a region of colonisation. Even now, when pop-
ulation density in China proper is much greater
than it was two thousand years ago, the number of
resident Chinese in Turkestan is small. The prin-
cipal officials, Manchu-Chinese, bring their families
with them and return to their proper homes as do
the English from India.
But this laying hold upon a distant province on
the other side of the interior desert caused the
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