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Islands. They were known in very early times to 

 the Chinese, and in still earlier to the ancient 

 Egyptians, as frontier tribes. The Thracians were 

 notorious for their fair hair and bine eyes many 

 centuries before our era. 



On the other hand, the dark stock predominates 

 in Southern and Western France, in Spain, along 

 the Ligurian shore, and in Western and Southern 

 Italy; in Greece, Asia, Syria, and North Africa; 

 in Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Hindostan, 

 shading gradually, through all stages of darkening, 

 into the type of the modern Egyptian, or of the 

 wild Hill-man of the Dekkan. Nor is there any 

 record of the existence of a different population 

 in all these countries. 



The extreme north of Europe, and the northern 

 part of Western Asia, are at present occupied by 

 a Mongoloid stock, and, in the absence of evidence 

 to the contrary, may be assumed to have been so 

 peopled from a very remote epoch. But, as I have 

 said, I can find no evidence that this stock ever 

 took part in peopling Britain. Of the three great 

 stocks of mankind which extend from the western 

 coast of the great Eurasiatic continent to its south- 

 ern and eastern shores, the Mongoloids occupy a 

 vast triangle, the base of which is the whole of 

 Eastern Asia, while its apex lies in Lapland. The 

 Melanochroi, on the other hand, may be repre- 

 sented as a broad band stretching from Ireland to 

 Hindostan; while the Xanthochroic area lies be- 



