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an open boat,* 1 from Diu, in the East Indies, round the Cape, 

 to Lisbon, in safety. In this manner, opinions, languages, and 

 records, were transmitted, unadulterated, from the Euxine and 

 Asia Minor, as far as Britain, in a single generation ; while the 

 tribes whose fate it was to travel by land, were compelled to 

 fight their way onwards for ages, gradually losing all memory 

 of the pristine fatherland, and unable to recognize their ancient 

 kindred, when they met again in the west, but by broken 

 accents of a once common language, as is sufficiently evident 

 in the meeting of the devious tribes of Gomerian Celtoe. 



In the view here taken, mankind might be primitively 

 arranged somewhat in the fonn of the diagram on page 222, sup- 

 posing the apex of an equilateral triangle to point to the north. 



Thus, we have the southern line representing the Himalaya 

 chain, with its great streams ending at the Indian Ocean, the 

 eastern similarly leading to the Pacific, and the western to a 

 sea gradually contracted into the Caspian ; and the intermedi- 

 ate, conducted by geographical necessities, reaching the South 

 Seas, the Northern Pacific, and from thence to America, the 

 Polar and Western Regions, and the Erythrean Seas to North- 

 ern Africa. Of these, however, the Caucasian alone bears 

 evidence of commencing development upon the table land, and 

 under the shadows of the western chains ; the Mongolic being 

 at first no nearer than the eastern extremity of the Gobi, and 

 the woolly-haired type coming up to, and along the skirts of 

 the southern chain, rather than commencing primaeval diffusion 

 so far to the north of its general centre of existence. 



The review of typical and sub-typical forms of Man, intended 

 to be submitted here, appears to be best arranged by taking in 

 succession the woolly-haired ; the Malay and mixed races of 



* It is supposed that Iago Botello used a pattemar, or ditch native 

 boat, in this daring voyage. The vessel was half-decked, but only 1 64 

 feet long, 9 broad, and 4i in depth. 



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