Note 280.2 — Chapter XI · NOTES
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Ibid., i. 216; iv. 26. Father Favre identifies the Padaioi with the Battas of Sumatra (Favre, Wild Tribes, 5), and Major Rennell the Issedones with the Oigurs or Eluths, a Mongol tribe conquered in the last century by the Chinese (G. Busk in ii. Journ. Ethn. Soc., N.S., 80, citing Rennell’s Geographical System of Herodotus). These identifications, however, must be regarded as doubtful.