ships aud sailing. They hate water in all forms. In moist 

 places they seem to be the oldest race, the first aborigines. 

 Generally they live in the mountaJns or forests, as far from 

 the sea as possible. They look and act like wild creatures, 

 things of the wood and forest. In the Philippines they are 

 ■^mall, slender, wild creatures, using bowe. and arrows, and 

 shunning other raceB. They look like the Pygrnies, of 

 Africa. Their culture is primitive. Some one has eaid 

 that "the ordinary Aeta or Philippine Negrito can count up 

 to five by the use of the fingers of oue hand, the other hand 

 being used to point of! with. Some clever ones, we ar'o 

 told, ca>n use two hands and count up to ten, and their pro- 

 fessors of mathematics in tlie Acta universities can reach 

 20 by using their toes ae counters." 



The Papuans arid Melanesians are a larger an.d stronger 

 and more civilized race, like the larger negroes of Africa. 

 But everywhere the negrcee seem to be the first comers, 

 and how can w© account for them? Some Ethnologists, 

 thinli that there was a gi'eat continent where the Indian 

 Ocean now la, and that it served either as a stepping stone 

 to bring the negroes from Africa, or that it was their original 

 home. This seems a rather expensive way to bring them, 

 but these Ethnologists also use the vanished, continent as 

 the home in which the human raee was first evolved. It 

 is vei-y convenient, and being now Runk out of sight, we 

 can arrange it as we like, and thus it answers every purpose 

 for the development and spread of the race. 



Caucasian. 



In ispeaking of the wliite race one must put from one's' 

 mind the idea that color is any indication of race. Some of 

 the finest specimens of the white race are among the dark- 

 est people in the world. 



No type can be finer than that of the Sikh, but one of 

 our negroes is a blond beside him. 



I will not- attempt to deal with the African or European 

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