THE NOACHIAN FLOOD. 49 



of the diluvian record. If the Noachian Flood was 

 universal, then from Noah alone must be descended all 

 the races of man now upon the earth : all the great and 

 curious variations they display must have been evolved, 

 not in countless generations as Darwinism supposes, but 

 in some two or three hundred or less. From Noah alone 

 must have sprung within a mere handful of centuries 

 races so widely unlike one another as Greeks and 

 Negroes, Jews and Egyptians, Saxons and Ojibbeways, 

 Caffirs and Hottentots, Fuegians and Patagonians, Cali- 

 fornians and Chinese, Arabs and Esquimaux. In the 

 same archipelago we have the Malay, the Papuan, and 

 the dwarf snub-nosed Negrito. To give the contrast 

 between the two former in the words of Mr. Wallace 1 : 

 ' The Malay is of short stature, brown-skinned, straight- 

 haired, beardless, and smooth-bodied. The Papuan is 

 taller, is black -skinned, frizzly- haired, bearded, and 

 hairy-bodied. The former is broad-faced, has a small 

 nose, and flat eyebrows ; the latter is long-faced, has a 

 large and prominent nose, and projecting eyebrows. 

 The Malay is bashful, cold, undemonstrative, and quiet ; 

 the Papuan is bold, impetuous, excitable, and noisy. The 

 former is grave, and seldom laughs ; the latter is joyous 

 and laughter-loving, the one conceals his emotions, the 

 other displays them.' Such is the description and con- 

 trast of two types of mankind geographically separated 

 from one another by an interval of not more than 300 

 miles ; yet the line which separates these two races of 

 the human family is almost exactly coincident with that 



1 ' The Malay Archipelago,' vol. ii. p. 448. 

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