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remote as tlie origin of a very distinct race — a race as 

 different from the Malay in mental and moral, as it is in 

 physical characters. 



As bearing upon this question it is important to point 

 out the harmony which exists, between the line of separa- 

 tion of the human races of the Archipelago and that of 

 the animal productions of the same country, which I have 

 already so fully explained and illustrated. The dividing 

 lines do not, it is true, exactly agree ; but I think it is a 

 remarkable fact, and something more tlian a mere coinci- 

 dence, that they should traverse the same district and 

 approach each other so closely as they do. If, however, 

 I am right in my supposition that the region where the 

 dividing line of the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan 

 regions of zoology can now be drawn, was formerly occu- 

 X)ied by a much wider sea than at present, and if man 

 existed on the earth at that period, we shall see good 

 reason why the races inhabiting the Asiatic and Pacific 

 areas should now meet and partially intermingle in the 

 vicinity of that dividing line. 



It has recently been maintained by Professor Huxley, 

 that the Papuans are more closely allied to the negroes of 

 Africa than to any other race. The resemblance both 

 in physical and mental characteristics had often struck 

 myself, but the difficulties in the way of accepting it as 

 probable or possible, have liitherto prevented me from 



