482 DIVISION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES 



the horse, than that of other pigs ? The points of difference 

 between tlie Negro and the European do not affect those 

 important characters which separate man in general from 

 the animal world : the erect attitude, the two hands, the 

 slow developement of the body, the use of reason, and con- 

 sequently perfectibility, are attributes common to both. 



That very little importance can be attached to the gene- 

 ral observation of the resemblance of the Negro and mon- 

 key, founded on external appearance, may be clearly in- 

 ferred from this fact, that the same remark has been made, 

 even by intelligent travellers, of particular people in the 

 other varieties. Regnard concludes his description of the 

 Laplanders with these words : " Voila la description de 

 ce petit animal qu'on appelle Lapon, et Ton peut dire 

 qu'il n'y en a point, apres le singe, qui approche plus de 

 I'homme *"." 



Cartwright thought tlie Esklmaux very like monkeys : 

 he informs us, "that walking along Piccadilly one day with 

 the two men, I took them into a shop to shew them a col- 

 icction of animals. We had no sooner entered, than I ob- 

 served their attention rivetted on a small monkey ; and I 

 could perceive horror most strongly depicted in their coun- 

 tenances. At length the old man turned to me, and faul- 

 tered out, ' Is that an Eskimau ?' I must confess that both 

 the colour and contour of the countenance had considerable 

 resemblance to the people of their nation. On pointing out 

 several other monkeys of different kinds, they were greatly 

 diverted at the mistake which they had made ; but were 

 not well pleased to observe that monkeys resembled their 

 race much more than ours f." 



Nic. DEL Techo represents a native tribe in South Ame- 

 rica as "tam simiis similes, quam hominibus J." Cook calls 

 the people of the island MallicoUo " an ape-like nation §:" 



• CEuvres, t. i. p. 71. 



+ Journal of Transaction, S^c. during a residence of nearly Sixteen Years 

 on the Coast of Labrador ; \. i. p. 270. 

 \ Relat. de Caaiguarum Gente, p. 34. 

 ^ Tor/age towards the South Pole, v. ii. p. 34. 



