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They are now found under similar denominations, such 

 as Cutchees, Bheels, Binderwars, Paharias of Bhangul- 

 poor, and Mongheer, who are complete Papuas ; there 

 are the Sedies of Canara, Dacoits of Bengal, Ghonds of 

 Ghondwana, Koolies or Kholes, Lurka Kholes, Cookies 

 or Nagas of Indo-China ; Bedas or Vedas of Ceylon, &c. 

 In Persia are the Hubbashie and Mekran fish eaters ; 

 and the Jamaules, near Aden, and the Ovahs of Mada- 

 gascar, are partially mixed races. 



The most aberrant of all are, however, the Houswana 

 nations, the Hottentots, Bushmen, Coranas, &c., all 

 of a lemon peel or dirty yellow colour, and often with 

 strange peculiarities of form ; speaking dialects inimi- 

 tably articulated, and possibly forming a hybrid race 

 of Mongolo-Papuan origin : one flung abroad at so 

 remote a period, as to have preceded both the true 

 woolly haired tribes, the Ethiopian, and the Caucasian 

 nations, since they, together with the Ompizee of Mada- 

 gascar, a portion of the inhabitants of Fernando Po, 

 and the ancient Guanches ef Teneriffe and the islands 

 of the west coast, seem to have belonged to the same 

 origin, and to have been driven off in all directions 

 by the Negroes who succeeded them, * until, at a later 

 period, they effected interunions, which form some of 



* To this expelled sallow people, may be ascribed also the 

 ruins of houses, which are reported to have been still visible 

 in the Canary Islands, at the commencement of the ninth 

 century ; as related by the Irish Monk Dicuil, in his curious 

 work, " De Mensura Orbis Terrae." He wrote in the year 

 829, and is better known by the name of the " Anonymous 

 of Ravenna." 



