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His profile was drawn by the late M. Agasse. The two 

 figures confirm, that two distinct races existed there anterior 

 to the European discovery. 



PLATE XXI. 



If the natives of Gilolo are Horafouras, the figure here 

 given most assuredly indicates, that among them there is a 

 great intermixture of Malay, if not of more positively 

 Caucasian blood in the population, which is tattooed like 

 the other superior races of the South Seas. The second is 

 an Edjow Galla, bearing the impress of Arabian, with but 

 scanty Negro intermixture ; that is, a melanic Ethiop., 



PLATE XXII. 



Portrait of a Fuegian, drawn at Plymouth, in his sailor's 

 dress. He might have been taken for a Malay. The other, 

 a Patagonian of Cape Gregory, shows the same cast of 

 features in excess. 



PLATE XXIII. 



North American Indians, from the Travels of Prince 

 Maximilian of Wied. The Oto chief, in particular, resem- 

 bles the high nosed bas-relief figures of Mexico and of 



PLATE AA.it. 



Other North Americans of the interior tribes, near the 

 Ilocky Mountains. 



