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ished, especially about the lip, and brown approaching to red ; 

 Hair flat, usually black ; body robust and muscular ; legs 

 short ; knees turning outwards ; feet inwards. Wanderers, 

 indomitable hunters, shepherds, but never agriculturists. 

 Having no local attachments, they emigrate in innumerable 

 bands, and, at different epochs, spread themselves like a flood 

 to the north, south or west. 



MONGOLIAN VARIETY. 



Face flat; forehead square and oblique; eyeballs project- 

 ing ; eyes narrow and oblique ; chin slightly projecting ; 

 beard thin; hair straight and black ; skin more or less yel- 

 low or olive ; language monosyllabic. [Asia beyond the 

 Ganges.] 



Chinese. 



Face round and widened in the middle ; cheek bones pro- 

 jecting ; eyes almond shape when open, with the external 

 angle very high ; lids large and nearly destitute of lashes ; 

 brows very thin and black; nose well separated from the 

 forehead by a deep depression, rounded, slightly flattened, 

 with the nostrils somewhat expanded ; mouth large, with 

 vertical teeth ; lips thick and of a livid red ; chin small and 

 unfurnished with beard; hair smooth, flat, never curling, of 

 moderate length, thick and always black; skin oily, and 

 sometimes of a deep brown. Mild, civil, flatterers, cringing, 

 brokers and greedy of gain. They are essentially rice eaters. 



Malays. 



Complexion maroon colour, approaching to brick-red or 

 yellow; eyes less elevated towards the temples; eye-balls 

 less projecting than among the Chinese. [The coast of Indo- 

 China, all the Asiatic Archipelago and the ocean as far as 

 Madagascar.] 



Hyperborean Regions of the two Continents. 



Head round and of huge dimensions ; face wide, short and 

 flat in front ; nose flattened ; eye-lids drawn up towards the 

 temples; mouth large; teeth vertical; hair smooth, black, 

 naturally greasy and hard; beard thin; ordinary height 

 about five feet; skin tawny and even entirely black, ac- 



