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inferior to the Indians of the East. Their resources are more 

 limited, and their diet poorer. 1 All fishing peoples of these 

 parts are weaker than their allied tribes ; less enterprising, as 

 they have not the habit of sustained activity requisite for hunt- 

 ing. The Takhalis or Carriers in the north of New Caledonia ; 

 the fishing tribes on the Columbia ; the Upper Californians on 

 the coast, are shorter and more delicate than the inhabitants of 

 the interior living by the chase. 2 Among the weakest and most 

 miserable human beings may be enumerated the Paiuches, on 

 the northern Colorado and in the region of the Salt Lake. 3 The 

 Schoschonies live in an almost desert tract, with but little game ; 

 (buffaloes are only found in the neighbourhood of the Rocky 

 Mountains) they grow fat at the time of salmon fishing, but be- 

 come again emaciated in winter and spring. 4 The size of the 

 Esquimaux differs according to the richness of the tract they 

 inhabit. 5 The American Indian seems generally to have no 

 tendency to grow fat ; there is, however, an exception as re- 

 gards the Moxos in South America, who lead a more protected 

 and secure life, being agriculturists and navigators besides 

 fishers and hunters. (D'Orbigny.) 



There is scarcely a people among whom more striking differ- 

 ences are found accordingly as they are nourished, than among 

 the Jakutes. Those who live in the meadows on the south 

 side of the mountains are five feet ten inches to six feet four 

 inches in height, well-formed and vigorous ; whilst those in the 

 north are only of middle stature, and of an unhealthy aspect. 6 

 A similar difference is found among the nomadic people, the 

 Reindeer-Tschuktsh and the Tschuktsh tribe settled on the; 

 coast, above whom the former claim a superiority. 7 The Arabs 

 differ much in their habits, and their physical peculiarities vary 

 accordingly, as shown in Egypt. In the colder regions they 

 are clear complexioned (yellow in the Hedschas, white in 



1 Hale, p. 199. 



2 Farnhain, " Travels in the Californias," p. 364, New York, 1844. 

 a Ibid., p. 376. 



4 Wyeth, Schoolcraft, " History of the Indian Tribes," i, p. 206. 



5 Seemann, " R. urn d. W.," ii, p. 53, 1853. 



6 " Billings, K. nach d. Nordl. Gegendenv.russ. Asien, n. Am.," p. 122, 1803. 



7 Ibid., p. 233 ; Wrangell, " Statist, und Ethnog. Nachrichten iiber d. russ. 

 Besitzungen im Am.," p. 59, Petersburg., 1839. 



