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and fact, as was shown to exist in the GiantsT~" They 

 bear, however, beside their diminished stature, one 

 common character in physical history ; namely, that 

 all the races, where by superabundant intermixture 

 the distinctive marks are not effaced, are swarthy, with 

 black hair and black eyes, growing still darker in 

 southern latitudes, till at length they become positively 

 black, and the hair assumes a woolly characters, Still, 

 among these, some may be seen of ordinary stature, and 

 others are stunted by habitual want of food. In this 

 shape they are, in Asia, recorded to have existed under 

 various legendary names ; and they now occupy many 

 localities, but greatly debased by persecution. Indeed, 

 their intermediate races, and still more and more, as 

 they pass into the purer type of the Papua or Negro, 

 have suffered, and continue to suffer, the unmitigated 

 oppression of Caucasian superiority. In hot regions, 

 where a powerful vegetation supplies the means, some 

 of the most brutal tribes, such as the Vedas of Ceylon, 

 Cookies, and Goands of Chittagong, east of the Brama- 

 putra, reside in trees, with little more contrivance, or 

 the use of reason, than is evinced by Chimpanzees, the 

 great apes of Africa. The Pouliahs of Malabar are no 

 better, for they also form a kind of nests, in trees, 

 beyond the reach of elephants and tigers, never asso- 

 ciating with other nations, and not even permitted by 

 the Hindoos to approach within one hundred yards. 

 In open mountain country, these nations are more 

 commonly troglodytes, dwellers in natural grottos ; and 

 only in colder regions, inhabitants of caves, excavated 



