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wages war with all its neighbors. Tlic Raven, or Croio Indians (Crow, or 

 Upsacoka nation), are a nomadic tribe, south of tlie Missouri, between the 

 Little Missouri and the south-eastern branches of the Yellow Stone River. 

 The Indians of New California are of a sjivage appearance, and of a very 

 dark color. Their flat, broad face, liglited up by hirge wild e3'es, is tliickly 

 overshadowed by long black haii-. 



Of the Negro race, fig. 14 represents a Guinea Negro ; fig. 15, a Bou.ssa 

 iieo'ro ; Jig. 16, a Hottentot ; and figs. 28 and 24, Papuans of East Aus- 

 tralia and Van Diemen's Land, Tlie black stocks of South Asia and Australia, 

 for the purpose of distinguishing them from the negroes, negritoes, or Aus- 

 tralian negroes, have been denominated Papuans, after a Malay word, which 

 signifies woolly haired. The natives of the nortli-west coast of New 

 Guinea bear, more especially, the latter name, ^Ve distinguish also true 

 Papuans from the mixed, with whom we rank those whicli maintain a 

 position about midway between the true Papuans and the Malay settlers. 

 The figure of the Papuans is handsome : their exterior indicates strength 

 and agility ; their skin is dark brown, tinged with yellow ; the nose 

 somewhat flat ; the mouth large ; the whole form of the face tolerably 

 regular. The hair is generally curly, close, and very thick. Some stocks 

 of New Guinea, New Britain, and new Ireland, allow it to hang down 

 upon the shoulders in long, straggling ringlets ; with others it stands on 

 end, thus giving the head a monstrous circumference. The Papuans go 

 entirely naked, and ornament their shoulders and breasts with incisions in 

 straight or crooked lines. There prevails also amongst them the custom 

 of covering their heads with a mixture of grease and ochre, which reddens 

 the hair and entire face. Li the inhabitants of Tasmania, or Van Diemen's 

 Land, the characteristics of the Papuans have degenerated. Their hair is 

 decidedly woolly ; the nose broad, the nostrils widely expanded : the mouth is 

 large ; the cheek bones very prominent ; the eyes long and narrow ; the 

 lower part of the face is larger than the upper part, and the color is dull 

 black. 



The Boussa negroes are a negro stock, belonging to the Eyeoes, who in- 

 habit the southern part of the kingdom of Houssa. on both sides of the 

 Quorra Niger, this kingdom being under the dominion of the Fellatahs of 

 Saccatoo. Our plate {pi. 1, fig. 15) represents the King of Boussa, showing 

 the features of the face to be very regular, the lips also not so thick as we 

 usually find to be the case among the negroes. The Eyeoes, moreover, trace 

 their origin from Bornou. Most of the Guinea negroes exhibit all the char- 

 acteristics of the negro race. Their skin is thick, like velvet to the touch, and 

 secretes a perspiration of an unpleasant odor. The color is black, and the 

 crisp, woolly hair is also generally of the same hue. But the stocks living be- 

 tween Cape Palmas and Cape Three Points (Ivory Coast), as well as those of 

 the country extending from the latter cape to the Rio Yalta (Gold Coast), to 

 wit, the Quaques, Buntakees, Ashantees, Fantees, Intas, (fee, have very little 

 of the negro physiognomy ; on the contrary, more of the Indian, or almost 

 regularly Grecian style of features. 



The Hottentots^ according to Barrow, are well proportioned and straight ; 



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