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rounded form, their skin of deep brown color, their 

 hair short, black, and curly, but less woolly than that 

 of the Negro. 



The Negro race, through the iniquities of the 

 slave-trade, has been transplanted from Africa to 

 the other side of the Atlantic, and now forms a con- 

 siderable item in the population of the New World. 

 In North America, the people of pure Negro blood 

 amount, however, to hardly more than a twelfth part 

 of the total population; in South America the pro- 

 portion is perhaps rather more considerable. 



The Malay, or brown family of nations, is dis- 

 tinguished, besides the color of the skin, by lank, 

 coarse, and black hair; with flat faces and obliquely 

 set eyes. Their stature is below the average height 

 either of the Caucasian or the Negro, and the figure 

 generally square and robust. 



If the nations of the Malay family are to be re- 

 ferred to one of the three greater divisions, they must 

 be regarded as a sub-variety either of the Mongol 

 or the Negro stock. Proximity of geographical po- 

 sition, with other circumstances, would lead us to 

 prefer the former. The Papuans, however, who in- 

 habit New Guinea and the adjacent islands to the 

 eastward, exhibit many of the characteristics of the 

 Negro type, and the native race of Australia is of the 

 Papuan or Austral-Negro family. There is, in truth, 

 throughout the Australian and Polynesian division 

 of the globe, a well-marked distinction between the 

 brown and the black races. The former, who belong 

 to the true Malay family, comprehend, with the 

 Malays proper (that is, the bulk of the inhabitants 



