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PHYSICAL HISTORY OF MAN 



OTHER MONGOLIANS. 



Travellers have spoken of a resemblance between some of the In- 

 terior people of Borneo, and the Chinese. I have not sufficient 

 materials for a decisive opinion; though all oral testimony has been 

 unfavourable to the presence of Mongolian aboriginals on that island. 

 I have not however met with persons who have seen the ' Idan' of 

 the northern mountains; tribes, that under this point of view may 

 deserve further inquiry. The same class of people, sometimes bear- 

 ing the name of ' Igorote,' are known to occur both on Palawan and 

 Luzon. 



I have followed Blumenbach, in referring the Laplanders to the 

 Mongolian race. Dr. R. E. Griffith has seen some of these people, 

 and he considers them as "differing physically from their neighbours 

 on the south, and as approaching, so far as an opinion may be formed 

 from descriptions, the Esquimaux." They appear to be connected 

 with the Siberian Mongols, through the Samoiedes. 



