Neither is it a difficulty,[35] it rather appears to me in accordance with tradition, that if this surmise be correct, the earliest arrival in the Indian Peninsula should have been of those who took the longest route. For it is natural to suppose that the proscribed and weakest races, _e.g._ the Canaanitish, would have been the first to depart, and to depart by the north-east and west, the more powerful families having passed down and closed the south-east exit by way of the lower valleys of the Euphrates. These latter would have spread themselves out in the direction of India leisurely and at a subsequent period. [35] I find this conjecture confirmed in the pages of the most recent authority on the subject, Mr Brace, "Ethnology," p. 13, 14--"On the continent of Asia the Turanians were probably the first who figured as nations in the ante-historical period. Their emigrations began long before the wanderings of the Aryans and Semites, who, wherever they went, always discovered a previous population, apparently of Turanian origin, which they either expelled or subdued." According to Max Müller's hypothesis there were two migrations, one northern and one southern [corresponding to the migration as above], "the _latter_ settling on the rivers Meikong, Meinam, _Irrawaddy_, and _Bramapootra_," ... "a third to the south [probably an advance of the previous one], is believed to tend toward Thibet and India, and in later times pours its hordes _through the Himalaya_, and forms the _original population of India_." Analogy may be discovered in "the two streams or lines of Celtic migration," which, says Bunsen ("Philosophy of Univ. Hist." i. 148) "we may distinguish by the names of the Western and Eastern stream, the _former_, although the _less direct_, seems to be historically the more ancient, and to have reached this country (Britain) _several centuries_ before _the other_." Following these lines of migration, the Aryan at some period came upon the black Turanian race (_vide infra_, Chap. v.); and Mr Hunter (p. 110) records the embittered feelings with which the recollection of the strife remained in tradition. Why should this have been? It might suffice to say, in consistency with what has already been advanced, that this was their first encounter, the first check in their advance.