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the Arctic to the Antarctic regions, he would have found no such ex- 

 treme unlikeness in the inhabitants. Apart from the Europeans and 

 Africans who have poured in since the fifteenth century, the native 

 Americans in general might be, as has often been said, of one race. 

 Not that they are all alike, but their differences in stature, form of 

 skull, feature, and complexion, though considerable, seem variations of 

 a secondary kind. The race to which most anthropologists refer the 

 native Americans is the Mongoloid of Eastern Asia, who are capable 

 of accommodating themselves to the extremest climates, and who by 

 the form of skull, the light-brown skin, straight black hair, and black 

 eyes, show considerable agreement with the American tribes. Fig. 



Fig. 23. Swedes. 



22 represents the wild hunting-tribes of North America in one of the 

 finest forms now existing, the Colorado Indians. 



Though commonly spoken of as one variety of mankind, it is plain 

 that the white men are not a single uniform race, but a varied and 

 mixed population. It is a step toward classing them to separate them 

 into two great divisions, the dark- whites and fair- whites {Quelanochroi, 

 xanthochroi). Ancient portraits have come down to us of the dark- 

 white nations, as Assyrians, Phoenicians, Persians, Greeks, Romans ; 

 and when beside these are placed moderns such as the Andalusians, 

 and the dark Welshmen or Bretons, and people from the Caucasus, it 

 will be evident that the resemblance runnino- throusfh all these can 

 only be in broad and general characters. Thev have a dusky or 



