3226 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
Most circumstances indicate southern Asia as the locality in 
question. Besides southern Asia, the only other of the now 
existing continents which might be viewed in this light is 
Africa. But there are a number of circumstances (especially 
chorological facts) which suggest that the primeval home 
of man was a continent now sunk below the surface of the 
Indian Ocean, which extended along the south of Asia, as it 
is at present (and probably in direct connection with it), 
towards the east, as far as further India and the Sunda 
Islands ; towards the west, as far as Madagascar and the 
south-eastern shores of Africa. We have already mentioned 
that many facts in animal and vegetable geography render 
the former existence of such a south Indian continent very 
probable. (Compare vol. i. p. 361.) Sclater has given this 
continent the name of Lemuria, from the Semi-apes which 
were characteristic of it. By assuming this Lemuria to 
have been man’s primeval home, we greatly facilitate the 
explanation of the geographical distribution of the human 
species by migration. (Compare the Table of Migrations 
XV., and its explanation at the end.) 
We as yet know of no fossil remains of the hypothetical 
primeval man (Homo primigenius) who developed out of 
anthropoid apes during the tertiary period, either in 
Lemuria or in southern Asia, or possibly in Africa. But 
considering the extraordinary resemblance between the 
lowest woolly-haired men, and the highest man-like apes, 
which still exist at the present day, it requires but a slight 
stretch of the imagination to conceive an intermediate form 
connecting the two, and to see in it an approximate likeness 
to the supposed primzval men, or ape-like men. The 
form of their skull was probably very long, with slanting 
