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displayed, having the same typical structure, and the color 

 intensely black, only when local circumstances indicate those 

 qualities to be so far accidental. It is distinct from the sub- 

 typical Malay, and tie intermediate ramifications derived from 

 it, by well-marked characteristics, notwithstanding, excepting 

 where there is reason to believe that the Malay stem is itself 

 crossed with Indo-Caucasian tribes in the eastern provinces of 

 India, and in a great part of the southern. Excepting that the 

 ears, especially of the Malabars, and the upper Egyptians, 

 stand somewhat higher, and that the legs are proportionably 

 longer than is the case with either of the types, there are no 

 very distinct characteristics immediately observable, though the 

 mouth, lips and nose are full, the hands, fingers and toes 

 broader and flatter, resembling the Negro form. The African 

 Ethiop has the hair pendent in heavy close ringlets, and the 

 black eyes are still larger, and more soft, than the Indian. 

 Equal intermixture constitutes the usual Mulatto condition ; 

 but, in the east, a much greater infusion of Caucasian blood 

 does not very evidently clear the skin. Some of the .lank- 

 haired nations of India, as such bearing signs of more than 

 semi-white descent, are, nevertheless, among the swarthiest of 

 the whole. It has even affected old Portuguese colonists, and 

 the ancient Jewish inhabitants of India ; neither, it must be 

 confessed, having the least claim to purity of origin, but being 

 a mixed progeny with low caste natives, themselves, as we 

 have before stated, descendants of aboriginal Paharias, Bheels, 

 Nagas, and with only a small admixture of nobler blood. Nev- 

 ertheless, among these slave and outcast tribes, the chiefs have 

 high aristocratic features, which are not unfrequent among 

 their subjects. Whether the mucous membrane of the very 

 dark tribes of Ethiopians, with lank hair, assumes the same 

 appearance as that of Negroes, is not, so far as we have been 

 able to learn, remarked; though, if this condition of melanism 

 should not exist in them, it would produce a very valid argu- 

 ment in favor of the assertion that the woolly-haired race is of 



