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long been applied to thousands of species of the vegetable and 
animal kingdoms. ; 
In the course of these introductory remarks they mention 
their examination of the Chinese inmates of the prison at Hong 
ong. Among these they found persons belonging to the Hakka 
Tribe, with stout and vigorous constitutions, fine, well-shaped, 
aquiline or long and straight noses, and a form of the eyes not 
-Tesembling the specific obliquity of other Chinese. As crimi- 
nals, they had been deprived of their tails, and Drs. Scherzer and 
Schwarz affirm that they had such a resemblance to the figures 
of some Europeans of the lower class, that, by a change of dress, 
they might pass amongst us without being recognized. They also 
_ mention how successfully Giitzlaff, Medhurst, Huc and others 
have travelled the Empire in a Chinese dress without detection, 
And, no. doubt, there are individuals so capable of assuming, 
and, as it were, substituting, the manners and expressions of 
others that the ordinary and slight,attention which is paid to 
persons on a journey and among numbers, does not suffice to dis- 
crminate them. 
This is not the proper time to refer to the distinguishable odors 
the different races of mankind, which travellers allude to. 
uc said he could easily distinguish those of the Negro, the Ma- 
; the Tartar, the Thibetan, the Hindoo, the Arab and the 
Chinese, Indeed, it is the same, with those having a delicate 
