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Fig. 271. 



animal existence. The portrait 

 of a Kamtschatdale, Fig. 271, 

 selected by Dr. Prichard as an 

 example, shows the projecting 

 muzzle, that invariable index of 

 want, and true animal feature. 

 The complexion is nevertheless 

 in correspondence with the low 

 temperature of the country. 

 A like examination of a third 



of the subdivisions Variations im- 



Kamtschatdale. 



Fig. 272. 



Can, equally Well il- dian race. 



lustrates the influence of heat. 

 These, though popularly spoken 

 of as red, and often regarded as presenting the same color from the North 

 Polar Sea to Terra del Fuego, are very far from offering such a uniform- 

 ity. The Esquimaux on the north, and the Fuegians on the south, are 

 light, the tint of the native races deepening, to a certain degree, as the 

 equator is approached a gradual deepening, much better marked in 

 South than in North America, and on the Pacific than on the Atlantic 



slope. As examples of the 

 North American Indians, 

 we may take the portraits, 

 by Mr. Catlin, of Black 

 Hawk, Fig. 272, and Tuch- 

 te,Fig. 273, page 576; the 

 former a Sac, the latter a 

 Cherokee. It is sufficient 

 to compare the counte- 

 nances of these Indians 

 with those of California, as 

 figured in the Voyage Pit- 

 toresque of Choris, Fig. 

 274, page 576, to realize 

 how erroneous is the preva- 

 lent statement that all the 

 American tribes, both of 

 the north and south conti- 

 tinent, are alike. The ol- 

 ive-black Indians of the Pacific slope, though their lips are thick and 

 their noses flat, have lank and not woolly hair, Fig. 275, page 576. On 

 the Atlantic shore, as is well known, the temperature, in passing to lower 



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American Indian. 



