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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



HOTTENTOT FEMALE. 



they never cultivate the soil, nor rear any domestic animals, 



save wretched dogs ; 

 they are so intimately 

 acquainted with the 

 habits of the game, 

 that they follow them 

 in their migrations from 

 place to place, and prey 

 upon them, and thus 

 prove as complete a 

 check upon their in- 

 ordinate increase as the 

 other carnivora. The 

 chief subsistence of the 

 Bushmen is the flesh of 

 game, but that is eked 

 out by what the women 

 collect of roots, beans, 

 or fruits of the desert. 



The MALAY family area coast -dwelling people, delighting 



in the water, and never 

 found very far removed 

 from it; they inhabit 

 the southernmost coast 

 of China, from Siam 

 southwards, and all the 

 adjacent islands. They 

 are of a dark rich brown 

 colour, with straight, 

 coarse, black hair and 

 scanty beard, which in 

 some is quite wanting. 

 Some of the members of 

 this family are above 

 the usual standard of 

 MALAY. height, such as the 



, . Polynesians and Ta- 



The moral character of the Malays, generally 



