438 VARIBTIES OF MANKIND, 



often intimately blended in the same individual (indeed all the 

 four varieties run into each other by insensible degrees) ; * and 



ropcans. Even the Foulahs, one of the Negro tribes of Guinea, hare, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Park, soft, silky hair ; on the other hand, the inhabitants of many 

 other countries resemble the Africans in their hair, as the savages of New 

 Guinea, Van Diemen's land, and Mallicollo. And in the same island some of 

 the people are found with crisp and woolly, others with straight hair, as in the 

 New Hebrides. In New Holland there are tribes of each character, though 

 resembling in other particulars." J. C. Prichard, M. D. Researches into the phy- 

 sical history of Man. p. 83. 



" Many tribes of the Negro race approach very near to the form of Eu- 

 ropeans. The JalofFs of Guinea, according to Park, are all very black, but 

 they have not the characteristic features of the Negro — the fiat nose and thick 

 lips : and Dampier assures us that the natives of Natal in Africa have very 

 good limbs, are oval visaged, that their noses are neither fiat nor high, but 

 very well proportioned; their teeth are white, and their aspect altogether 

 graceful. The same Author (Dampier's Voyages) informs us, that their skin is 

 black, and their hair crisped. Nor are others of this diversity more constant. 

 In the native race of Americans, some tribes are found, who differ not in the 

 characters in question from Europeans. ' Under the 54° 10' of north latitude,' 

 says Humboldt, • at Cloak-bay, in the midst of copper-coloured Indians, with 

 small long eyes, there is a tribe with large eyes, European features, and a skin 

 less dark than that of our peasantry.' Humboldt's Essay on New Spain, trans- 

 lated." 1. c. p. 62. note b. 



" The features of the inhabitants of the Friendly Islands are very various, 

 insomuch that it is scarcely possible to fix on any general likeness by which to 

 characterize them, unless it be a fulness at the point of the nose, which is very 

 common. But on the other hand we met with hundreds of truly European 

 faces, and many genuine Roman noses among them.' Cook's las'. Voyage. 

 Vol. I. 380. 



" Similar examples," remarks Blumenbach on this passage (1. c. § 55. note.) 

 " are observed, among Ethiopian and American nations ; and, vice versa, the 

 resemblance of individual Europeans to Ethiopians and Mongoles is very fre- 

 quent and has become even proverbial." 



* " The Tartars of the Caucasian variety pass by means of the Kirghises 

 and neighbouring people into the Mongoles, in the same manner as these by 

 means of the people of Thibet into the Indians, by means of the Esquimaux 

 into the Americans, and by means of the Phillippinc Islanders even in some 

 measure into the Malays." Blumenbach, 1. c. § 86*. 



