CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 1. BIMANA. 



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AMERICAN INDIAN \ LOGAN, THE MINGO CHIEF. 



tamable, not merely because all attempts to civilize them have failed, but also every endeavor to 

 enslave them. Our Indian tribes submit to extermination, rather than wear the yoke under which 

 our negro slaves fatten and multiply. It has been falsely asserted that the Choctaio and Cherokee 

 Indians have made great progress in civilization. I assert positively, after most ample investiga- 

 tion of the facts, that the pure-blooded Indians are everywhere unchanged in their habits. Many 

 white persons settling among the above tribes have intermarried with them, and all such trumpeted 

 progress exists among these whites and their mixed breeds, alone. The pure-blooded savage still 

 skulks untamed through the forest, or gallops athwart the prairie. Can any one call the name ot 

 a single pure Indian of the barbarous tribes, who — except in death, like a wild-cat — has done any 

 thing worthy of remembrance V 



5. THE MALAY VARIETY. 



Biown color, from a light tawny to a deep brown. Hair black, more or less curled, and abun- 

 dant ; head rather narrow ; bones of the face large and prominent ; nose full, and broad toward 

 the apex ; mouth large. In this are included the inhabitants of Malacca, of Sumatra, Java, Bor- 

 1 neo, Celebes, and the adjacent Asiatic islands; of the Molucca, Ladrone, Philippine, Marian, and 

 Caroline groups; of Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Guinea, New Zealand, and of all the 

 islands of the South Sea. 



The epithet Oceanic is sometimes applied to this group, because, with the exception of the pen- 

 insula of Malacca, the tribes belonging to it are the inhabitants of islands exclusively. . With the ex- 

 ception of Mauritius, the Isle" of Bourbon, Ceylon, the Seychelles, the Maldives, and the Laccadives 



