“At the same visit he produced Hodgson’s ‘Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists,’ and asked me if I had seen it. On being told that I had a copy, and had been familiar with its contents in progress of collection, although unversed in the subject, he said, ‘He sent me this copy; it is a wonderful combination of knowledge on a new subject, with the deepest philosophical speculations, and will astonish the people of Europe. There are, however, some mistakes in it.’ I think he then said: ‘In your paper on the Limboos you asked if the appellation “Hung,” distinctive of families of that tribe, had any reference to the original “Huns,” the objects of my search in Asia. It is a curious similarity, but your “Hungs” are a small tribe, and the people who passed from Asia, as the progenitors of the Hungarians, were a great nation.’ I replied, that as the original country of the Limboo ‘Hungs’ was undoubtedly north of the Himalaya, and as he believed the same to be the case as regarded the ‘Huns,’ it was at all events possible that the ‘Hungs’ of this neighbourhood might have been an offshoot from the same nation. ‘Yes, yes,’ he rejoined, ‘it is very possible; but I do not think it is the case.’ And then, as if preferring to luxuriate in remote speculations on his beloved subjects rather than in attempting to put an end to them by a discovery at hand, he gave a rapid summary of the manner in which he believed his native land was possessed by the original ‘Huns,’ and his reasons for tracing them to Central or Eastern Asia. This was all done in the most enthusiastic strain; but the texture of the story was too complicated for me to take connected note of it. I gathered, however, from his conversation of this day, and of the previous ones since our acquaintance, that all his hopes of attaining the object of the long and laborious search were centered in the discovery of the country of the ‘Yoogars.’ This land he believed to be to the east and north of Lassa and the province of Kham, and on the western confines of China. To reach it was the goal of his most ardent wishes, and there he fully expected to find the tribes he had hitherto sought in vain. The foundation of his hopes, to any one not deeply imbued with enthusiasm, or accustomed to put faith in philological affinities, will probably appear vague and insecure. It was as follows, in so far as I could gather from his repeated conversations:—In the dialects of Europe—the Sclavonic, Celtic, Saxon, and German—I believe the people who gave their name to the country now called Hungary, were styled ‘Hunger’ or ‘Ungur,’ ‘Oongar’ or ‘Yoongar,’ and in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian works there are notices of a nation in Central Asia resembling in many respects the people who came from the East into Hungary. In these languages they are styled ‘Oogur,’ ‘Woogur,’ ‘Voogur,’ or ‘Yoogur,’ according to the pronunciation of the Persian letter; and from the same