338 VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



the face and head is backwards, forming a gradually 

 receding outline. They inhabit the interior and eastern 

 parts of Africa conjointly with the Hottentot. 



The preceding is a slight outline of the various races of 

 men which inhabit the earth ; their numbers are in the 

 gross somewhere about a thousand millions, and it has been 

 computed as follows, bearing in mind that these numbers 

 are but a rude approximation to truth : 



European . . . 350,000,000 Abyssinian. . . 30,000,000 



Mongolian . . . 400.000,040 Papuan 3,000,000 



Malay 100,000,000 Negrillo .... 3,000,000 



Telingan .... 80,000,000 Australian . . . 500,000 



Negro 50,000,000 Hottentot . . . 500,000 



Ethiopian . . . 10,000,000 



In examining the various tribes of animated nature, 

 there is one great fact which impresses itself irresistibly 

 upon our minds, namely, that they all form the handiwork 

 of one Creator, and His Autograph is stamped everywhere. 

 His care is also shown in the way in which animals are 

 made to feed on all kinds of organic matters, and on 

 each other ; this has been the means of economising all 

 the nutriment which exists on the earth, for, although it 

 may not always be apparent, yet there is not a scrap or 

 crumb ever wasted in nature ; not a decayed leaf or blade 

 of grass, not a leg of a fly, nor the wing of a gnat, nor 

 any part or portion of organic matter, from the smallest 

 animalcule to the huge carcass of the dead elephant, or 

 the trunk of the giant pine tree which the hurricane 

 has uprooted, but forms a feast for some of the smaller 

 tribes of animated beings there placed by Providence to 

 eat it. Millions of these, after devouring the waste-matters 

 of organic existence, whether embedded in the soil or else- 

 where (not accessible to larger creatures), themselves form 

 the food for creatures of larger growth, as birds, fishes, &c. ; 

 these again form the food of Man, so that 



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