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temples, often repeated, with great bushy heads ; but 

 real Negroes may be alone intended in the figures of 

 black human victims, significantly offered to a Python 

 god. In Asia the circumstances were different; to this 

 time the Hubbashee clans of real Negroes exist in 

 Laristan and Mekran, in Persia, and even on the Hel- 

 rnund ; and are evidently of the primitive race to the 

 south of the Himalaya chain as well as southern 

 Persia. * This type forms the primaeval inhabitants of 

 the Australasian and many tropical islands, although 

 they have been rooted out or subdued to form a low 

 cast of slaves in most of them ; and notwithstanding 

 that a remote idolatry, of Papuan origin, can still be 

 traced out in parts of India, and sovereign families even 

 claim descent from monkey gods, that is, from primaeval 

 Bheels, the worship has changed to Brahmanism, and 

 the ruling dynasties are now of high cast Caucasians, 

 as will be shown in the sequel. Only, in the larger 

 islands, the Papua tribes are in general still found 

 masters of the central mountain forests. Rarely, how- 



* Professor Wilson, in his notice of the animals, &c., 

 mentioned by Ctesias, gives some account of the Kalestrii ; 

 and in my manuscript note upon it, I find, that " there were 

 other tribes, higher up the country, and nearer the sources 

 of the Indus, who were very black, drank no water nor ate 

 corn, but lived on the milk of their flocks." These were, 

 perhaps, the typical Asoors or Azuras of Hindoo mytho- 

 logy. Abulghazi speaks of black people residing between 

 the Hylas (Cabul?) and the Indus, vol. i. p. 15. The pre- 

 sent Aghori, by Ctesias, named avfyoirtforof, and by the Per- 

 sians Mardikohr, still occasionally feed on putrid human 

 flesh, and reside in caverns about Aboo, among the Jains. 

 They cannot well be Caucasians, nor are they Mongoles. 



