50 l vn: I] 



of dress. " Tli i 'arctic 



Circle, are entirely destitute of clothing, showing th< of the 



th. "Indeed, we afterwards (bund that 



in the southern hemisphere vegetation is nowhei by a 



season of cold ; but that, in many h tropical cl 



be said i" ' \'. rid to the Antarcl I li and among 



the natives of the extreme point of South 



by the Fuegians, but not by the North American In<3 



Among the North-west watermen, the air of 



Btriking; they appeared on g 1 terms with the birds and I 



and as if forming with them a part of the animal creation; in 

 accordance with an id "' that the Mot 



liar qualifications !'<>r reclaiming or reducing animals to th 

 state." The do I by them I harden. The 



Chinooks are considerably superior t«» the hunting tribes of North 

 America in various arts and in ■ I '.nils of the 



Chinooks;: i in infancy; but, as they grow up, the skull 



resumes its natural such an i stent a- to show very little 



trace of the previous deformity, except an unusual , breadth of 

 the face. Slavery exists among the Chinooks, and is probably 

 connected with the first peoplii \ linent. He 



thinks the fate of the Chinooks Efferent from the 



rest of the continental tribes, from " the greater density of a spirited 

 population, and the scanty proportion of agricultural territory, 

 that '• they can only give place to a maritime people like them- 

 selves. 1 ' 



Speaking of a bas-relief from Palc-nque, he says, "It is eminently 

 characteristic of the Mongolian, and seems decisive as to the physical 

 race of the people who reared the remarkable ancient structures dis- 

 covered in that part of America." 



The Aborigines of the United States seemed to him physically 

 identical with their brethren west of the Rocky Mountains ; their 

 stature is higher, however, and not inferior to Europeans. He 

 thinks all belong to the Mongolian race. Of the Chinese, In 

 " I repeatedly selected individuals, who, if transported in a different 

 dress into the American forest, might, I thought, have deceived the 

 most experienced eye." At Singapore, the Feejean captive, Vein- 

 dovi, saw, for the first time, some Chinese, and " at once identified 

 them with his old acquaintances, the tribes of North-west America." 

 Of the Mongolian races, the Aboriginal American has superior 

 powers of endurance ; the Chinese excel in persevering industry 

 and frugality ; these qualifications promise to have an important 

 bearing on the future destiny of the race. 



