368 



Morton's Crania Americana. 



were intellectually superior to the surrounding nations, passion- 

 ately devoted to war, and victorious over the other tribes. They 

 forced their women to work in the field and carry burdens ; they 

 paid little respect to old age, were not much affected by love, 

 were regardless of connubial obligations, and addicted to suicide. 

 " They were proud, audacious, and vindictive, untiring in the 

 pursuit of an enemy, and remorseless in the gratification of their 

 revenge. Their religious ideas were vague, and their cautious- 

 ness and cunning proverbial. They were finally subdued and 

 nearly exterminated by the Anglo-Americans in 1779.. Some 

 miserable remnants of them, ruined by intoxicating liquors, still 

 exist in the state of New York." The following is the skull of a 

 Huron, one of these nations. 



Huron, Fig. 6. 



The following are average measurements of the five skulls of 

 these nations given by Dr. Morton : internal capacity, 88 ; coro- 

 nal region, 15; anterior chamber, 31.5; posterior chamber, 50 

 cubic inches. 



The Araucanians are the most celebrated and powerful of the 

 Chilian tribes. They inhabit the region between the rivers Bio- 

 bio and Valdivia, and between the Andes and the sea, and derive 

 their name from the province of Arauco. " They are a robust 



