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VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



cording to the countries in which they dwell. They have 

 domesticated the reindeer as well as the dog. They live 

 upon the flesh of these animals, upon the blubber of whales, 

 and upon a kind of bread made of bones, lichens and the 

 pounded bark of the birch tree. 



ETHIOPIAN VARIETY. 



Skull compressed ; nose flattened ; muzzle projecting ; 

 facial angle acute ; lips thick ; hair more or less frizzled ; 

 skin more or less black. 



Negroes. 



Hair woolly ; skull compressed, and forehead depressed ; 

 nose flat ; incisive teeth projecting ; skin black. [Africa 

 from the Senegal and the Niger to beyond the southern tro- 

 pic] 



Negroes of Mozambique. 

 Hair woolly; skin black; skull less compressed than among 

 the Ethiopians; forehead almost as projecting as among Eu- 

 ropeans; incisive teeth vertical; nose but little flattened. 

 [Eastern side of Africa upon the Indian ocean.] 



Papous. 



Hair very thick, and moderately woolly ; forehead high ; 

 nose a little flattened ; face tolerably regular. [Coast of New 

 Guinea.] 



Alfourous. 



Hair smooth and black ; beard thin ; skin black ; limbs 

 slender, and of a length disproportioned to the body ; nose 

 much widened ; forehead depressed and compressed. [Inte- 

 rior of New Guinea and of New Holland.] 



Hottentots. 



Facial angle seventy-five degrees ; hair black or brownish, 

 very short and woolly ; teeth oblique and bent ; the olecra- 

 nean cavity of the shoulder having a hole in it ; skin more 

 or less yellow, never black ; nose immoderately large ; top 

 of the head flattened ; and of a disgusting filthiness. Unso- 

 cial, taciturn and fearful, they live in caverns, and hardly 

 know the use of fire. 



