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And we find that the very natural character of Israel reappears in all its life and reality in countries where people call themselves Bani Israel and universally claim to be the descendants of the Lost Tribes. The nomenclature of their tribes and districts, both in ancient geography, and at the present day, confirms this universal natural tradition. Lastly, we have the route of the Israelites from Media to Afghanistan and India marked by a series of intermediate stations bearing the names of several of the tribes and clearly indicating the stages of their long and arduous journey. . Moore then goes on to say:. Sir William Jones, Sir John Malcolm and the missionary Chamberlain, after full investigation, were of the opinion that the Ten Tribes migrated to India, Tibet and Cashemire through Afghanistan. . Moore has mentioned only three eminent writers on the subject. But reference can also be made with advantage to. General Sir George Macmunn, Col. G. B. Malleson, Col. Failson,. George Bell, E. Balfour, Sir Henry Yule and Sir George Rose. . They, one and all, independently came to the same conclusion. . Among more recent writers on the ancestry of the Afghans,. Dr. Alfred Edersheim states as follows:. Modern investigations have pointed to the Nestorians and latterly, with almost convincing evidence (so far as it is possible), to the Afghans as descendants from the lost tribes. . Similarly, Sir Thomas Holditsh, in his book, The Gates of. India says:. But there is one important people (of whom there is much more to be said) who call themselves Bani Israel, who claim a descent from Cush and Ham, who have adopted a strange mixture of Mosaic Law in Ordinances in their moral code, who (some sections at least) keep a feast which strongly accords with the Passover, who hate the Yahudi (Jew) with a traditional hatred, and for whom no one has yet been able to suggest any other origin than the one they claim, and claim with determined force, and these people are the overwhelming inhabitants of Afghanistan and Kashmir. . It will, therefore, be acknowledged that ethnical and historical evidence, both ancient and modern, establishes that Afghans 59