But a great race does not spring from three feeble old missionaries who lived no more than a decade in the land, 0 the Hwei-Hwei have settled upon the 3,000 mer-canaries, who came in from the west to fight the Tibetans for Tai Tsung, as their ancestors. soldiers, who certainly did come jin, and of whose outgoing there is no record, were drafted from a [force then in Central Asia, just beyond the modern bounds of the empire. The Caliph's army at that time included Arabs, Turks, Persians and others too numerous to mention. If these were the anocstors of the Hwei-Hwei they were probably a motley horde to start with and by the time they had found themselves Chinese, Mongol and Tibetan wives, the first generation of their offspring would even then have boasted a rare diversity of parentage. But whatever they are, the Chinese and all China's neighbours look upon them as 8 distinct people, a race apart. The al from
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