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is certain that the children of the Greenlande-ftf' 

 are born white ; some retain this whiteness ; 

 and often in the brownest (the most tanned) the 

 redness of the blood is seen to appear on their 

 cheeks *. 



The second portion of the natives of America 

 includes all those nations that are now Tschou- 

 gaz-Eskimoes, beginning from Cook's River to 

 the Straits of Magellan, from the Ugaljach- 

 mouzes and the Kinaese of Mount St. Elias to 

 the Puelches and Tehuelhets of the southern he- 

 misphere. The men, who belong to this second 

 branch, are taller, stronger, more warlike, and 

 more taciturn. They present also very remark- 

 able differences in the colour of their skin. In 

 Mexico, Peru, New-Grenada, Quito, on the 

 banks of the Oroonoko and the river of Ama- 

 zons, in every part of South America, that 

 I have examined, in the plains as well as on 

 the coldest table-lands, the Indian children of 

 two or three months old have the same bronze 

 tint as is observed in adults. The idea that the 

 natives may be whites tanned by the air and the 

 sun, never presented itself to a Spanish inha- 

 bitant of Quito, or of the banks of the Oroonoko. 

 In the north-east of America, on the contrary, 



* Crantz, Hist, of Greenland, 1667, T. i, p. 132. Green- 

 land does not seem to have been inhabited in the 11th cen- 

 tury ; at least the Eskimoes appeared only in the 14th, com- 

 ing from the west. (Ib. p. 258.) 



