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ins: as thoiiG:h mio^ration from the central region into new climates had 

 somewhat modified the type. There are found in the Malay Penin- 

 sula and the Philippines scanty forest-tribes ajjparently allied to the 

 Andamaners and classed under the general term Negritos (i. e., " little 

 blacks " ), seeming to belong to a race once widely spread over this 

 part of the world, whose remnants have been driven by stronger new- 

 come races to find refuge in the mountains. Fig. 12 represents one of 

 them, an Aheta from the island of Luzon. Lastly come the wide- 

 spread and complicated varieties of the Eastern negro race in the region 

 known as Melanesia, the " black islands," extending from New Guinea to 

 Feejee. The group of various islanders (Fig. 13), belonging to Bishop 



Fig. 18. Coreans. 



Patteson's mission, shows plainly the resemblance to the African negro, 

 though with some marked points of difference, as in the brows being 

 more strongly ridged, and the nose being more prominent, even aqui- 

 line a striking contrast to the African. The great variety of color 

 in Melanesia, from the full brown-black down to chocolate or nut- 

 brown, shows that there has been much crossing with lighter popula- 

 tions. Finally, the Tasmanians were a distant outlying population be- 

 longing to the Eastern blacks. 



In Australia, there appears a thin population of roaming savages, 



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