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The Chinaman is brown in colour throughout. He does not 

 get black in the tropics, nor white in the cold latitudes. The 

 Eskimo, inhabiting the Polar regions, is dark. America extends 

 from North Polar regions to Cape Horn ; the aboriginal in- 

 habitants are all of the brown type. As in China, they do not 

 get black in the tropics nor white in the colder regions. The 

 Maori race extends from Hawaii to New Zealand, some 6,000 

 miles. The colour is similar throughout, unless when a cross 

 with the Papuans can be detected. "The Whence of the 

 American races" is as difficult a problem as that of "The 

 Whence of the Maori." 



I do not believe that the Maoris are Aryans, because in 

 physical appearance they are unlike any tribe of Aryans whose 

 acquaintance I have made. I do not claim that the Maoris are 

 inferior in appearance, but they are different. The Maori is 

 brown in colour of skin ; he has blue- black hair ; his nose and 

 lips are more fully curved than those of an Aryan, and, there- 

 fore, in some respects more handsome ; his limbs are more 

 fleshy, and his cranium seems peculiar. One may sometimes be 

 startled by a peculiarly fine specimen of the race showing what 

 may be Aryan characteristics, but these are exceptions. 



Now, whom do the Maoris resemble ? 



(1.) Some of them are not unlike Chinese, but they differ 

 enormously in character from that industrious people, 

 and the Maoris knew none of the arts which have so 

 long been cultivated in China. 



(2.) I have seen Maori women very like what I remember 

 of the Indians at Talcahuano, in Chile, and what 

 struck me was that these were very like seals, both 

 in the fat cheek and the expression of the eye. 

 This is, however, an inferior type of Maori woman. 



(3.) The Ceylonese or Cingalese is not unlike the Maori ; 

 his colour is similar, but he is much smaller. There 

 were two Ceylonese boys on the Whanganui Biver 

 who might well have passed for Maori girls. 



(4.) What shall we say to the Egyptians ? I believe a 

 Coptic people, crossing by intermarriage with another 

 race, might have originated the Maori race. 



(5.) The Dravidians of India, mentioned by Thomson, 

 I have never seen, and therefore cannot found an 

 opinion upon my own observation. I would suggest 

 that the ancestry lies between them and the Egyp- 

 tians. Either supposition would allow reasonable 

 data for the settlement of Madagascar by the Maori 

 race, as well as the Eastern Pacific. 



We have, however, not got beyond the region of speculation, 

 and everything yet remains to be proved. I would suggest that 



