Mongols

(mong'gulz.) (Ethnol.) A division of the human race, ranking second in the cla ification of Blumenbach, and viewed collectively, the one great nomadic people of the earth. They include, besides the Mongols Proper, the Tartars, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, the Burmese, Siamese, Japanese, Esquimaux, Samoyedes, Finns, Lapps, Turks, and Magyars. The physical characteristics of the true Mongol is thus depicted by Dr. Latham in his Descriptive Ethnology: " The face of the Mongolian is broad and flat. This is because the cheek-bones stand out laterally, and the nasal bones are depre ed. The cheek-bones, we say, stand out laterally, since they are not merely projecting, for this they might be without giving much breadth to the face, inasmuch as they might stand forward.. The distance between the eyes is great, the eyes themselves being oblique, and their carunculæ concealed. The eyebrows form a low and imperfect arch, black and scanty. The iris is dark, the cornea yellow. The complexion is tawny, the stature low. The ears are large, standing out from the head; the lips thick and fleshy rather than thin; the teeth somewhat oblique in their insertion, the forehead low and flat, and the hair lank and thin." Under the various designations of Scythians, Huns, Tartars, Turks, the M. during centuries were the terror ofE. Europe, and under Genghis Khan and Tamer lane carried their victorious arms over China, Persia, Siberia, and India. The Mongolian fam. is estimated to number 528,000,000, or about one-half of the human race. [s. 612]