THE NEGRO. 



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Fig. 279. 



Negro of Guinea. 



Fig. 280. 



and a prognathous skull. But the negro 

 aspect is not limited to the African con- 

 tinent ; it is prolonged or projected through 

 the Indian into the Pacific Ocean, north 

 and south of the equator, in a zone of 'many- 

 degrees. Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, New 

 Guinea, and part of Australia, lie in this 

 zone. In these various countries, one or 

 another of the characteristics we have men- 

 tioned predominate, in part through the in- 

 fluence of climate, and in part through ad- 

 mixture of blood. In some of these people 

 the hair is not woolly ; in some, the lips 

 are thin, and the nose projecting ; in some, 

 the form of the skull indicates a great su- 

 periority over the West African tribes. But, whatever these modifica- 

 tions may be, the black races of the Pacific present in their general ap- 

 pearance so predominating a negro as- 

 pect that they have by all travelers 

 been classed with that tribe. Of one 

 of these nations, Dampier, the early 

 navigator, speaks as " shock, curl-pa- 

 ted, New Guinea negroes. " The por- 

 trait, Fig. 280, from Choris's Voyage 

 Pittoresque, of a girl of the island of 

 Luzon, one of the Philippines, may il- 

 lustrate this remark ; for, though the 

 form of the head shows a very great 

 advance upon that of the Guinea ne- 

 gro, the facial angle, respecting which 

 more will shortly be said, being much 

 larger, and the relative size of the 

 brain therefore increased, the counte- 

 nance is essentially that of tropical 

 Africa. 



The projection of the African type into the Pacific is crossed at a cer- 

 tain point by a like projection of the dark Asiatic type, and y ariations im 

 in the region of this intersection or commingling we find the pressed on the 

 most degraded specimens of humanity. Pacific race ' 



From these regions, as we pass eastwardly toward the American con- 

 tinent, the improvement becomes very striking; thus tne Amelioration of 

 natives of the Society Islands, though living within the the Pelagian 

 tropic, are of a clear olive or brunette. In the opinion of type to the east> 



Philippine negro. 



