[14] Prichard, vol. iv. [15] Prichard, vol. iv. [16] Buchanan, Asiatic Researches. [17] Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. iv. part 2. [18] Such are the primitive habits, still in use from the Konki to the Monash and which are most worthy of study and record, as being primitive and as being common to two people, the Bodo and Dhimál, though abandoned by the Kámrúpian and most numerous branch of the Bodo. [19] Ai or Aya is the goddess Kámákyá of Kanirup, _vis genetrix naturæ_, typed by the Bhaga or Yoni. [20] _Dhámi_, in Bodo. _Dom_, in other allied dialects. [21] Decline and Fall, vol. viii. [22] Klaproth, Memoires relatifs à l'Asie, iii. [23] Zeuss, v. _Avari_. [24] Decline and Fall, vol. v. [25] Lucian, Toxaris 31. From Zeuss, v. _Alani_. [26] 1. The determination of the language to which the name of any nation mentioned in history belongs is of primary importance. Perhaps there is not one fourth of the tribes described by writers, either ancient or modern, whereof the name is native; _e.g._, the terms _Welsh_ and _German_ are unknown in _Wales_ and _Germany_; whilst an Englishman is a _Saxon_ in the Principality and in Ireland. For ascertaining whether a name be native or not the two following rules are useful. _Rule 1._ When two different nations speak of a third by the same name the _primâ facie_ evidence is _in favour_ of that name being the native one. _Rule 2._ When one nation speaks of two others under the same name, the _primâ facie_ evidence is _against_ that name being the native one. Thus, according to Rule 1, if a Chinese and a Greek each call a tribe which invades their country, _Hun_, it is nearly certain that the invading tribe called itself _Hun_ also. Of course, in cases, where the two nations using the common term might have borrowed it one of another, or from a third language, the probabilities are modified. Still the general rule holds good. The second rule may be illustrated by the term _Welsh_. It is given by the nations of the Gothic stock to the Cambrians of Wales, the Italians of Italy, and the Wallachians of Wallachia. We _know_ that with none of these it is native. I consider, however, that, given the geographical position of Germany, Wales, Italy, and Wallachia, the same might have been _inferred_. [27] Wrangell, from Prichard, vol. iv. [28] Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1846. [29] Ermann, from Prichard, vol. iv. [30] Reise um der Erde. [31] _Saxon (German) wine._ [32] Asia Minor and Thrace. [33] Many parts of Russia. [34] Germania, 45. [35] Zeuss, _v._ _Finni_, and p. 157. B. DIOSCURIAN MONGOLIDÆ.