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curled at the point. The face of the Cafuso resembles more 

 the Negro than the American, but the thick lips are not turned 

 up ; the legs are weak, the muscles of the chest and arms are 

 powerfully developed. A similar enormous growth of the hair 

 is also seen among the Cocamas on the lower Huallaga, 1 so 

 that they may be considered as belonging to the Zambo race. 

 It is also observed among the Fiji Islanders, who, on other 

 grounds, are considered as mongrels of Polynesians and Austral 

 Negroes ; and it is also probable that the Arab tribe in Taka, 

 among whom Werne 2 observed the same peculiarity, has an 

 admixture of Negro blood. 3 



On reviewing the examples cited, we find the principle con- 

 firmed, that the pure races exhibit a more uniform, and the 

 mixed races a variegated, type, and this variation increases as 

 the intermixture progresses. 



When, therefore, we hear of a people which, despite a low 

 state of intellectual culture, exhibits a variety in features, nose, 

 lips, as, for instance, among the Tschuvashes, 4 we shall not be 

 wrong in considering it as of mixed origin. With regard, 

 however, to the axiom of Geoffroy, we can only admit that the 

 product of the crossing between the white and the black man 

 is usually an intermediate type, whilst variety .and inconstancy 

 of physical form is again exhibited in subsequent generations 

 by the intermixture of the mongrels. The principal types of 

 mankind appear to possess different degrees of constancy in 

 their intermixtures. Next to the Negro type, the Mongolian 

 appears to possess considerable constancy. 5 The characteristics 

 of the Hottentots exhibit a similar tenacity. The first altera- 

 tion in their cross-breeds is that of colour, then of the hair, then 

 follows an alteration of the form of the nose, and, finally, in 

 the shape of the eyes. 6 



1 Poppig, " E.," ii, p. 450. 



2 " Feldz. nach Taka," p. 89. 



3 In East Africa there are also the Danakil, distinguished by their wig-like 

 hair (Harris, " Highlands of Ethiopia," i, p. 337, 2nd edit., 1844 ; Pickering, 

 p. 206.) 



4 Kornheim, in Erman's " Archiv," iii, p. 74. 



5 Eitter, " Erkunde," iii, p. 386. 



6 Schmarda, " E. urn d. Erde," ii, p. 32, 1861. 



