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of the Mongoloid, wbicli spreads over Sumatra, Java, and other islands 

 of the Eastern Archipehxgo. Fig. 21 shows the Dyaks of Borneo, 

 who represent the race in its wilder and perhaps less mixed state. 

 The Mieronesians and Polynesians show connection with the Malays 

 in language, and more or less in bodily make. But they are not Ma- 

 lays proper, and there are seen among them high faces, narrow noses, 

 and small mouths, which remind us of the European face. The Maoris 



Fig. 22. Colorado Indian (North America). 



are still further from being pure Malays, as is seen by their more curly 

 hair, often prominent and even aquiline noses. 



Turning now to the double continent of America, we find in this 

 New World a problem of race remarkably different from that of the 

 Old World. The traveler who should cross the earth from Nova Zem- 

 bla to the Cape of Good Hope or Van Diemen's Land would find in 

 its various climates various strongly-marked kinds of men, white, yel- 

 low, browm, and black. But, if Columbus had surveyed America from 



