Tahitians. Natives of Tahiti, of Polynesian stock; pleasure-loving and polite, but immoral and untrustworthy; now civilised but formerly noted for their cruelty.
Taipings. The Chinese rebels who attacked the dynasty from 1850 to 1864.
Tajiks. See [PERSIANS].
Talaings. An Indo-Chinese race who preceded the Burmese in the Irawadi Delta, and founded a state of which Pegu was the capital. They were subjugated by Burmese in the eighteenth century.
Talamancas. Wild hunting Indians, perfectly uncivilised, who occupy the forest-covered Atlantic slopes of Costa Rica.
Tamils. Natives of Northern Ceylon and the Indian Carnatic. See [DRAVIDAS].
Taos. See [PUEBLO INDIANS].
Tanguts. Nomadic Mongols of Northern Tibet. See [SHARRAS].
Tarahumaras. See [OPATA-PIMA].
Tarascans. A group of Indian tribes inhabiting the province of Michoaca in Mexico.