LOLOS, logoz. or NESUS. A people living in large numbers in the northeast of Yunnan, the west of Sze-ehuen, etc., in Southwestern China, probably the aborigines of this portion of the Ce lestial Empire. They are the 'savages' whom the Chinese found in their conquest of this part of the country, and Yun-nan is still the least Chinese province of all. The Lolos, together with the Miaotse and cognate peoples of China, Farther India, and Tibet, represented an old, pre-Chinese population, which was formerly considered typi cally Mongolian or 'Turanian,' but this view is now' considered inaccurate. Physically they are de scribed as somewhat slenderly built, with brown ish rather than yellow skin, and features recalling the Caucasian rather than the Mongolian. Some have compared them to the fairer Gypsy type. Their eyes do not seem to possess the 'Mongolian droop.' Some of the Lobo women present the type in a. delicate and rather graceful form.
Some ethnologists see in the Lobos what they term a 'sub-Caucasian' strain of blood ; others would term them proto-•hite or pre-Caucasian. The Lobos are said to be good miners. and smiths. With them woman has a comparatively high position. and some of the more independent tribes have even had female chiefs. They seem to lie of a. merry temperament, and have nu merous dances and songs. According to some au thorities, the language of the Loins is rein ted to the Thai stock of Farther India. Some of them possess a mode of writing of tins hiero glyphic order, while others are said to have adopted a Tibetan form. Consult: Garnier, Coy age rn Indo-Chinr ( Paris, 1873) ; Colquhoun, Across Chrysf' ( London. 1883) ; Bourne, Journcy in China (London, 1888).