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or yellow race of Africa : it includes the Hottentot and Bos- 

 jesman, properly so called ; but travellers affirm that 1 1 



Fig. 190/. The Skull of the Tasmanian. 



tralian or Tasmanian stands lowest in the scale of humanity. 

 However this may be, certain it is that most of the coloured 



'.Tig. 190 g. Caffre Cranium. 



races of man become rapidly extinct in presence of the white 

 or European races ; and were it not for climate, it is pro- 

 bable that many of the races of man would have been long 



