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in the Indian Ocean, and the Japanese empire, with the islands to the north thereof in the Chinese 

 Sea, every inhabited spot of land in the Indian and Pacific Oceans is occupied by tribes of one 

 and the same race which is embraced by this division. Not only is this race to be found spread 

 over these islands, but apparently nowhere else. " In the peninsula of Malacca," says Dr. Latham, 

 " and on no other part of the main-land of Asia, is an Oceanic tribe to be detected." Although 

 united by naturalists, the Oceanic races exhibit two types. One class is yellow, olive, brunette, or 

 brown, with long, black, and straight hair. Another class is black rather than yellow ; the hair 

 is BOmetimes long and straight, but in other cases crisp, curly, frizzy, or even woolly. The social, 

 moral, and intellectual difference between these two classes is not less than their physical. Hie 

 black division inhabits New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania, New Ireland, and the islands between it 

 and New Caledonia. The brown division occupies all the rest of the Oceanic area, Sumatra, Bor- 

 neo, Java, the Moluccas, the Philippines, the South Sea Islands, the Carolinas, <ire. The names 

 • riven t<> these divisions are as follows : 



1. For the lighter-complexioned straight-haired type — Malay. 



2. For the' type that partakes of the character of the African negro inhabiting New Guinea, 

 Australia, ami what may be called the continuous localities for the unmixed black — Negrito. 



