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•hick lips of the Negro, and the high cheek-bones <>f the Hottentot. 

 \ i rv likely they may he a mixed race. 



The Mozambique tribe* resemble the Kafirs, and, were it not for 

 their black color and woolly hair, would be a handsome race. The 

 African nations between Cape Lopez and ('ape Negro are true 

 Negroes, though some of their skulls have lees than usual of the 

 prognathous character, and more of the pyramidal form. 



The nations of Africa, limited to those with woolly hair, <h> not 

 agree in the form of the skull, and cannot be >educ d to any particu- 

 lar stock or number of races. 



The races ofOceanica he divides into »hree ' ilayo- 



Polynesian, comprising a family of nations whose Dear affinity has 

 been established by Humboldt ; the Pelagian Negroes, <»t' dai* 

 complexion and crisp hair, more or less resembling African Nv 

 ; and the Alforas, of dark color, lank hair, and 



prognathous heads," including the natives of Australia. '■'. 

 is the physic:*' difference between these nations, Prichard thinks 

 there is full proov" of unity of descent in the whole class, and attrib- 

 utes their diversities to fponianeotu variation. This, without settling, 

 only postpones the difficulty. 



'The first group contains the Malays proper, a people of short 

 stature and slender limbs, with flal faces, and features resembling 

 the Chinese, though their complexion is darker; the Polynesians, of 

 whom Lesson considers the Tahitiana as the type ; handsomi 

 whose heads might be called European, were it nut for the spread- 

 ing out of the nostrils, and the too ereat thickness of the lips : and 

 the natives of Madagascar, some of whose tribes approximate t be 

 European character of the Polynesians. 



The second group of Pelagian Negroes occupies the interior t 

 many of the islands of the Indian Archipelago : those of the Philip- 

 pine Islands inhabit the mountains, and resemble the nations of 

 Guinea, wandering about like beasts, and supporting themselves by 

 rruits of spontaneous growth ; the natives of Van Diemen's Land. 

 v>r Tasmanians, belong to this <rroup. and have the compressed and 

 elongated skull and prognathous jaws of the Ne<rro. 



The third group, the Alforians, inhabits the interior of 

 Guinea and many of the larger islands to the southward of the 

 Indian Ocean ; those of New Guinea, according to Lesson, have 

 " flat noses, eheek-rones projecting, larpe eyes, prominent teeth, 

 long and slender legs, very black and thick hair, rough and shining, 

 without being woolly ; their beards coarse and thick, and an 

 excessive stupidity stamped upon their countenances." The tribes 

 of the north-east of Borneo are a savage and piratical race, eating 



