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Inhabitants
108
The inhabitants are
three races of
posed of three
На
the Puntis
Kas, and the Tankas
as they
The Puntis,
ar
o
Chi
the Hak-
Cantonese,
termed by Europeans
belong to the race which is suppored to have come from the provinces bordering
the south
the tang-tag river. "Natives
The tum Punti
of
hoe a<-
the soil"; but the existence
of aborigines in many parti of the Reving-ting provinc
They
shows that thee Puntis were not the aboriginal inhabitanto It is not improbable that- commenced to find their to the couch of Chine during the early periods of Chinese history. At race they
way
wen
any
Cd -
in the Couth dupely the lifting:
Dynasty which reigned from A.D. 1127 to A.D. 1278. More of the Punti inhabitants easily trace thin descent pour ancestors who
settled
in the San on district in that
period. The Puntis excake the
dialect commonly known
ao