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being still applied to the Cookies, whose inveterate 

 cannibalism we have already mentioned ; and other 

 tribes of the same source, such as the Chong, extend 

 to the extremity of the Malay peninsula. * 



The nations of this class, mystified in the records of 

 tradition, mythology, and legends, are again prominent 

 in Southern Asia; such as the Nagas and Nishadas, 

 the Acephali of Greek authors, or Nimreks, Flatheads, 

 Dombuks, Kakasiah, or Black Brethren ; in Persian 

 lore, they are the objects of constant persecution and 

 extermination, by the earliest heroes of the first Iranian 

 riding conqueror tribes Husheng, Temurath Divbend, 

 &c., who sometimes vanquish Deeves, at others subdue 

 the black tribes of southern Persia, among whom there 

 appear to have been one or more, whose foreheads were 

 naturally, or perhaps by art, greatly depressed a cha- 

 racter we shall soon see which occurs again in America. 

 Bones and crania of men, with this conformation, have 

 been found in Yemen ; t profiles of Negroes, similarly 

 conditioned, occur in Egyptian figures, published by 

 Gau and others ; and the same frontal structure is ob- 

 served in portraits referred to Caratchai (Black Circas- 

 sians, more probably Koords) allied to the Georgian 

 stock, as if they still bore testimony to the ancient in- 

 termixture with the black Colchians mentioned by 

 Herodotus. (See Plate.) 



* There are tribes of negroes in Central Africa, likewise 

 known by the name of Nagas ; and Cookies is again the 

 name of the dark slaves of New Zealand. 



t Communicated by an officer who was employed in 

 surveying that coast 



