6 Identity of Race in the American and Asiatic Man. 



4. The kindred nature of the Indian dogs of America and the 

 Silicrian dogs of Asia. 



The animal tlwit lives with the natives of the tu-o continents, 

 ns a dog, is very diftorent from t!ic tame and famiHar creatine of 

 tlie same name in Europe. He is either a different species, or 

 a wide variety of the same species. But the identitv of the 

 American and Asiatic curs is evinced by several considerations. 

 Both are mostly white. They have shaggy coats, sharp noses 

 and erect ears. They are voracious, thievish, and to a consi- 

 derable degree indomitable. They steal whenever thcv can, and 

 sometimes turn against their masters. Thev are prone to snarl 

 and grin, and they liavc a howl instead of barking. They are 

 employed in both hemispheres for labour: such as carrying luir- 

 thens, drawing sleds over the snow, and the like: being yoked 

 and harncs'>ed for the purpose, like horses. 



This coincidence of our Indian dog with the Ca?iis Silieric7is 

 is a verv important fact. The dog, the companion, the friend or 

 the slave of man in all his fortunes and migrations, thus reflects 

 great light upon the history of nations and of their genealogy. 



II. The exterminated race in the savage encounters between 

 the nations of North America in ancient days appears clearly to 

 have been that of the Malays. 



The bodies and shrouds and clothing of these individuals have 

 within a few years been discovered in the caverns of saltpetre and 

 copperas within the states of Kentucky and Tenuesee : their entire 

 and essiccated condition has led intelligent gentlemen who have 

 seen them to call them 7niimrnies. They are some of the most 

 memorable of the antiquities that North America contains. The 

 race or nation to which they belonged is extinct ; but in pre- 

 ceding ages occupied the region situated between lakes Ontario 

 and Erie on the north and the gulf of Mexico on the Ikouth, and 

 bounded eastvvardly by the Alleghany mountains, and vvestwardly 

 by the Mississippi river. 



That they were similar in their origin and character to the 

 present inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and of Austral Asia, 

 is argued from various circumstances. 



1. The sameness of texture in the plain cloth or matting that 

 enwraps the nuunmies, and that which our navigators bring from 

 Wakash, the Sandwich Islands, and the Fegees. 



2. The close resemblance there is between the feathery man- 

 tles brought nowadays from the islands of the South Sea, and 

 those wrappers which surround the mummies lately disinterred 

 in the western states. The plumes of birds are twisted or tied 

 to the threads, with peculiar skill, and turn water like the back 

 of a duck. 



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