210 ON THE ORIGIN, &C. OF THE NATIVE KACES 
are the aborigines of Southern Africa to be traced to the 
primitive races of the ancient world ? In the absence of all 
historical detail relative to the affiliation of these races, and 
until some future Park shall make us acquainted with 
Central Africa, as well to the south as to the north of the 
Line, both being equally unknown, we shall bring together 
the results presented by anatomical inquiry, which, being 
a method founded on fixed and general physical laws, will, 
if it attain not the trath, at least approximate to it. 
We may view the human race as derived originally from 
one stock, to which the arbitrary name of Caucasian has 
been given. This species, influenced by climate and civiliza- 
tion, assumed, at a very early period, live distinct forms, 
which have also been arbitrarily designated by the nam.es 
of Caucasian, Mongolic, Ethiopian, American, and Malay *\ 
We cannot hesitate referring the KafFre nations to the 
Ethiopian, not so much from their position, as from their 
close resemblance ; whilst the Bosjeman may be arranged^ 
for the present, with the Mongolic, until further investiga- 
tion shall have shewn a more intimate relation with some 
unknown African tribes, or until the race shall have been 
fairly traced through Central Africa to the Valley of the 
• I shall here take the liberty of remarking, that the Malay race seems^ 
to me an artificial variety, and has no existence in nature as a distinct race 
of men. I am inclined to refer the whole inhabitants of the innumerable 
islands scattered over the Great South Sea (including New Holland) to the 
American variety. In Southern India they have mixed with the Mongolic 
and Caucasian races, and form consequently a mixed or mulatto breed ; but 
they may be traced tolerably pure as high as Sumatra, in which island seve- 
ral tribes are found much resembling the native Americans, and retaining 
all their customs, even to the pretended flattening of the head by artificial 
means. It is probable that in this race only are found the anthropophagous 
tribes. 
