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STUDIES, SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL chap, xxi 



Phrenologist among the Todas — a tribe in southern India 

 — under the title " Adam and Eve." 



The fact that a complete state of savagery is quite com- 

 patible with elevation of type is shown by the Veddahs 

 of Ceylon, believed to be the aborigines of the island and 



Fig. 82.— a veddah shooting game. 



still living in the dense forests in a completely savage 

 state. They are looked down upon by the other 

 inhabitants as little removed from wild beasts, yet their 

 physical characteristics show them to be a fine race, with 

 all the essential characteristics of the Caucasian type. 

 The reproductions of three very beautiful photographs of 

 these interesting people (Figs. 82, 83, and 84), show them 



