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EARLY MIGRATIOX 



east coast of America. Tradition in Brazil says that sucli 

 arrivals took place there, and certainly there is a resemblance 

 in some points between the Patagonians and what history 

 states of the Guanches. 



Let us now turn to the Negro population, descendants of 

 Cash. Spreading to the south and west, they may have over- 

 run extensive regions in Africa, but by no means to the exclu- 

 sion of the mixed varieties of men, who also explored and 

 colonized that continent, chiefly towards the northern and cen- 

 tral regions. From the coast opposite Madagascar a party of ne- 

 groes might have embarked to cross the Mosambique Channel, 

 or they might have been driven off by a storm while coasting 

 along near Algoa Bay, in which cases the current, always set- 

 tins: south-westward alons: that coast, would have hurried them 

 into the region of strong westerly winds, by which they must 

 have been carried, if their vessel and provisions held out, to the 

 coast of New Holland, or to Van Diemen''s Land. Now it is 

 worth notice that the men of the south-western quarter of Aus- 

 tralia are exceedingly like some of those who frequent the 

 countries near Algoa Bay — and that the native dances and 

 superstitions are very similar; while the aborigines of Van 

 Diemen's Land, though of like colour, are shorter, stouter, 

 and have coarser features ; differences which might be expected 

 to result from living in a wetter, windier, and colder climate. 

 That other negroes arrived on the northern shores of Australia, 

 brought there as slaves by red men, or making their escape 

 from Asiatic masters, is probable : and from one or other 

 source, if not from each, the black men in Australia and Van 

 Diemen''s Land may have been derived. That red men must 

 have landed in Australia, we now know by the notices of late 

 travellers, and their presence accounts for the colour observable 

 in many of the so-called blacks, whose actual hue, when 

 washed, is a deep brown — next to black, certainly, but with a 

 perceptible red tinge. They are nearly the variety which 

 would be produced by the intermarriage of a Negro and a 

 Chino (see table, page 643,) called Zambo-chino in Lima : but 

 there are' gradations of colour, as might be expected, and va- 



