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other races, loses more and more of his special points. It is so in the 

 southeast, where in China and Japan the characteristic breadth of 

 skull is lessened. In Europe, where from remotest antiquity hordes of 

 Tartar race have poured in, their descendants have often preserved in 

 their languages, such as Hungarian and Finnish, clearer traces of their 

 Asiatic home than can be made out in their present types of com- 



FiG. 21. Dyaks. 



plexion and feature. Yet the Finns (Figs. 19 and 20) have not lost 

 the race-differences which mark them off from the Swedes among 

 whom they dwell, and the stunted Lapps show some points of likeness 

 to their Siberian kinsfolk. 



On the Malay Peninsula, at the extreme southeast corner of Asia, 

 appear the first members of the Malay race, seemingly a distant branch 



