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PHYSICAL HISTORY OF MAN. 



At Rewa, we found a European wearing the native costume, who 

 had been brought to the place when quite young, and who had no 

 wish to leave ; being content to remain in a condition not far removed 

 from servitude. 



The White men established at Ovolau, were it is true, dependent 

 for support upon the labour of the natives ; but their position clearly 

 demanded more energy of character, than a residence among Polyne- 

 sians. Being well provided with fire-arms and ammunition, they 

 added to the influence of the chief of the district ; who, on his part, 

 was glad to reciprocate the benefit by extending to them his protec- 

 tion. They had put an end, within the limits of his territory, to the 

 practice of cannibalism. 



In the East Indies, we met with but two or three Europeans of 

 the lower class; and these expressed dissatisfaction with their situa- 

 tion, and they evidently could not maintain themselves among the 

 surrounding population. The European residents, continue to be 

 confined to those portions of the Archipelago which are under Euro- 

 pean rule ; and they consist of the officers of government, civil, mili- 

 tary, and ecclesiastic, and of a few persons engaged in foreign com- 

 merce. Persons of European descent, more or less mixed, now form 

 an intermediate class of some importance. 



European power in Bindoostan, amounts rather to the possession of 

 the government than to a proper colony ; for should it now cease, 

 there would scarcely be a separate class of population left behind; 

 except only, in the instance of the mixed Portuguese. 



Of mixed European colonies, the most complicated perhaps, is the 

 recent establishment of the English at Aden; where, without count- 

 ing the troops, the majority of the inhabitants, appeared to be volun- 

 tary emigrants from Hindoostan. 



HEBREWS. 



The White men met with previous to arriving at Singapore, had 

 been exclusively of the European stock; and only at that place, did 

 the Exploring Expedition come in contact with Orientals; with men 

 physically like ourselves, who yet differed from us in their customs, 

 and who had not derived their arts and acquirements from Europe. 



