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nage customs; one woman is generally the wife <>f a whole family 

 of brothers; this appears "less injurious in a physical point of 

 view than the more frequent bojtI "t polygamy." A vast amount 



of literature [s preserved m their language in the mon 

 Tibet 



'I'd the nations with pyramidal skulls belong the races bordering 

 on the Arctic Ocean, which are styled [chthyophagi, or Fishing 

 Tribes, which sufficiently describes ilieir habits of life. 'I bey 

 include the Namollos of the north-easl of Asia and the Aleutian 

 islands, akin to the Esquimaux of America, the Koriaks, tin' 

 Kamtschatkans, the Yukagiri of Eastern Siberia, the Samoiedi 

 the Kiinlians. To this division also belong the Koreans, the Chi- 

 nese, and the Japanese; the races of the Indo-Chinese peninsula 

 beyond the Ganges; — the aboriginal races of Iudia distinct from the 

 Hindoos, (who belong to the Arabian stuck.) and inhabiting their 

 present localities long before the latter passed the river Indus; viz., 

 the Singhalese, comprising all the race- of Ceylon, except the 

 Tamulian ; the Tamulians, inhabiting part of Ceylon, and the 

 greater part of the Dekhan or Indian Peninsula, and the Parbatya, 

 or mountain tribes of the Dekhan. 



Among the " Allophylian" races, inhabiting mountains difficult 

 of access, in the midst of regions long since conquered by the Ara- 

 bian and Syro-Arabian races, may be mentioned the Caucasians, 

 inhabiting to this day the chain of Caucasus, and successfully 

 ing all the attempts of the Russians to conquer them : they are 

 mostly people of European features and form. The Iberians of the 

 Pyrenees have been already alluded to ; to these may he added the 

 Lybians and the Berbers of the Northern Atlas, also extended to the 

 Canary Islands, under the name of " Guanches,*' whose custom of 

 embalming their dead and depositing them in catacombs reminds us 

 of the ancient Egyptians, though the embalming process was 

 different. 



In his introductory remarks on the African races, Prichard says, 

 " If we trace the intervening countries between Egypt and Sene- 

 gambia, and carefully note the physical qualities of the inhabitants, 

 we shall have no difficulty in recognizing almost every degree or 

 stage of deviation successively displayed, and showing a gradual 

 transition from the characters of the Egyptian to those of the Negro, 

 without any broadly marked line of abrupt separation. The char- 

 acteristic type of one division of the human species here passes into 

 another, and that by almost imperceptible degrees." 



The countries above Egypt are inhabited by two races, one 

 aboriginal, or the Nubians of the Red Sea, ani the other foreign, or 



