Caucasians. One of the families of Caucasic Man, inhabiting the mountainous region of the Caucasus, and divided into southern, western, and eastern branches [see [GEORGIANS], [CIRCASSIANS], [CHECHENZES], [LESGHIANS]]. They include a great number of different tribes, who seem to have settled there from the earliest historical times. Some of these, the Melanochroid highlanders, like the Georgians, Circassians, and Lesghians, present an almost ideal standard of physical beauty, whilst others are squat and ungainly. Some ethnologists see in the Caucasus the primitive home of the Aryan family, from whom the Caucasians would, on this view, be an offshoot. The [Ossets] (q.v.) are certainly Aryan. The Caucasians are very warlike, and struggled till quite recently with success against the Russian domination.
Caucasic. One of the four great divisions of the human race. Type, white-skinned, square-jawed (orthognathous), skull between broad and long (mesocephalic), hair soft, straight, or wavy; in intelligence, enterprise, and civilisation, much superior to other divisions.
Cayugas. See [IROQUOIAN].
Celts. See [KELTS].
Chakhars. A branch of Eastern Mongols, settled on the south-east boundary of the Desert of Gobi.
Chaldæans. See [BABYLONIANS].
Chamorros. Aborigines of the Ladrone Islands, so named from their thievish propensities. A branch of the Oceanic Mongolic family, probably allied to the [Formosans] (q.v.).
Chancas. See [INCAS].
Chaudors. A nomad tribe inhabiting the steppes east of the Caspian and south of the Oxus. See [TURKOMANS].
Chapogirs. See [TUNGUSES].