THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



venture, which causes their descendants to be found 

 singly, or partially mixed with Caucasian blood, on 

 most of the South Sea Islands. 



They appear to have been the leaders of that gene- 

 rally prevailing fashion among those tribes, of tattooing 

 the skin, not only of the face, but nearly of every part 

 of the body ; distinctly marking, by means of raised 

 lines and figures, the family and clan of every indivi- 

 dual so adorned. 



The Negro or woolly haired type, independently of 

 diluvian convulsions, appears, as before stated, origi- 

 nally to have extended northward to the lower ranges 

 of the Himalaya chain, if indeed that region was not 

 its original seat ; and that it did not extend, in a pure 

 or perhaps somewhat mixed state, eastward to Japan, 

 may be surmised by the present population of Formosa 

 being apparently descended from an expelled people, 

 once resident about the coasts of China. It is con- 

 firmed from the existence of a black stock, with Cau- 

 caso-Mongoles, and now termed Min-leu, black haired 

 people ; a denomination which implies a distinct race, 

 not genuine Chinese. The same inference may be 

 drawn from the black people mentioned by Abulghazi, 

 and even from the melanic Californians on the west 

 coast of America. 



In this view, the first migrations of the Negro stock, 

 coasting westward by catamarans, or in wretched 

 canoes, and skirting South Western Asia, may syn- 

 chronise with the earliest appearance of the Nogr-/ 

 tribes in Eastern Africa, and just precede the moro 



