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ae belonging to the Mongolian race, viz : the Mongol ^Tartars, Turkish, Chinese, 

 and Indo-Chinese families. "We saw no individuals of the Polar family. Although 

 we did not examine these races of men in regard to the question of unity or plu- 

 rality of their origin, we were anxious to render ourselves familiar with the different 

 varieties. We became satisfied that the characters so confidently insisted on as 

 pervading all the ramifications of the great Mongolian stock are far from being uni- 

 form or permanent in all the varieties of the Mongolian family. In a crew of 

 thirteen Chinese, which we examined at Liverpool, all represented to us by gentle- 

 men who had resided in China, as of unmixed blood, there were only three who 

 possessed any claims to the oblique eye, so generally represented as characteristic 

 of this nation. Among a crew of Japanese, which we examined in London, we 

 sought in vain for the striking peculiarity spoken of by Thunberg, who says, 'the 

 eyelids form in the great angle of the eye a deep furrow, which makes the Japanese 

 look as if they were sharp-sighted.' An impression was left on our minds that 

 several peculiarities ascribed as the invariable characteristics of the Mongolian race 

 were confined to the races existing in the Polar regions, and that the causes might 

 yet be traced to the snow-clad regions which they inhabited. The color was not 

 as uniformly yellow as has been represented, nor have we found that the red man 

 of America is always entitled to the latter appellation. We saw a considerable 

 number of individuals who belonged to several of the Mongolian families on the 

 eastern continent, whom, if we had met with them in America, we should immedi- 

 ately have classed with some of the tribes of our now dispersed and almost extinct 

 aborigines. We observed the same high cheek bones, the same very straight hair 

 with scarcely a tendency to curl, the same beardless lace, so very striking and 

 peculiar in every branch of the Mongolian family; a few partial exceptions exist 

 in both countries, but we observed at least as much beard in two of the Japanese 

 as we ever witnessed on the face of an American Indian. "We could add many 

 other resemblances in countenance, language, and modes of life, but our only object 

 in this place is to draw the attention of naturalists again to a subject which, we 

 believe, when properly investigated, will once more direct the current of opinion 

 into the original, but now apparently choked-up channel. 



" From all the observations we were enabled to make, we have been led to the 

 firm conviction that the descendants of what is called the Mongolian race, are found 

 in a variety of forms and shades of color in America, from Greenland on one side, 

 and Kamtschatka on the other, in the arctic circle, through the Russian settlements 

 and Oregon, down to California in the west ; and through the Canadas and the 

 Atlantic United States on the east, down to the southern point of Florida, on the 

 very borders of the tropics; that with occasional admixture of the Malays, which 

 appear to predominate in many tribes of California, Mexico, and South America, 

 and an admixture of the negro in some of the Florida and Cherokee tribes, the 

 same race, with many variations, may be traced through the whole range of the 

 American continent, down to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego." 1 



1 Doctrine of the Unity of the Haman Race, pp. 36&-272. 



