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Show B IN MAGYAR LAND. HHHH BBBJ The Magyars or Hungarians, aio BBBJ illntlnct from all the other people of BBBJ Europe, tho Finns alone excepted. BBBJ Their ancestors many centuries ago, BBB tswopt down from the plateaus of tho BBB TJral Mountains upon the rich prairies BBBJ of Hungary, nnd, by the ory force BBBJ tl tho Inherent character, as well BBBJ .-is bv their labor at arms, ovetcamo BBBJ or assimilated the former bni baric BBBJ Inhabitants, and over since, amid the H vicissitudes of almost constant wars 1 find even freaucnt defeats by many H nejnlea. havo mnlnetaiued their In- ..'lIvJAuallty, and, for the most pntt, their undisputed sutircmncy, in South- H 1 ' eastern ICuropo. Bj In race and language they aio al- allied to the Turks on one sldo and to J tib Finns, another branch of the same 1 family tree, on the other. Yet, though J' f fitted to tho Tuiks, they were the J xnast consistent and successful cue- J ui let of Mohammedanism In all lu K irope. In fact Hungary, for centuries, J ras the buffer statu between Christ- J 1 tat Kuro)M and Mohammedan Asia, mnU many a hard-fought war did hci Mq;le wage, almost single-handed, to 8 vepti tho tide of IslnmlHin, which ot- J tlm rircatciu'il to submerge all Hu |