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are also pi-e.s.sed from the West by the ei^ux c»f the highei* forms from 
Europe, while they also in turn overwhelm or drive off their feebler 
neighbours in the South-east, etc., as in New Guinea, where they 
are gradually occupying the coast and driving the negroid aborigines 
to take refuge in the mountains of the interior. 
The Negroid or black races are the most archaic and primitive of 
existing peoples, and the lowest in their degree of mental endow- 
ment, while their muscular and bony structure has been shown by 
Dr. Frank Bakei' to be more primitive and anthropoid than that of 
other races. 
These feeble peo})les may be aptly compared with the Pt otogona, 
the most lowly group of f/elicidcr,m their relative degreeof inferiority, 
and in their isolation or enforced restriction at the present day to the 
most archaic and primitive regions of the earth and those the most 
remote and distant from the European area, or dithcult of access 
therefrom by natural or primitive modes of locomotion. y 
Fig. 14.— Map illustrating the relative positions in the world of the White, the Yellow and 
the Black races of mankind dnring the XlXth century, and showing the progress of the continued 
encroachments of the White race upon the territories formerly occupied hy the Mongols in 
Europe from whence they are being gradually expelled, and later data show an accelerated rate ot 
this expulsion, n\ hile the invasion of Asia by the White race is iiy the same route as that followed 
by all animals and plants (after Rerghaus). 
The Grey Tint denotes those countries naturallv inhabited by the Negroid or Black races ; 
the Yellow the regions naturally dominated by the Yellow races; and the Red distinguishes 
the evolutionary area at present occupied by the White man, who is supreme and taking forcible 
possession of the larger part of the known world. 
// should he home in mind that this Map takes no account of the recent colonization of 
Australia, Meiv Zealand, America, etc, rendered more practicable by the modern facilities 
for ocean transportation, and all of which are no7v practically Europeanized. 
At some immeasurably remote period their ancestors probably 
inhabited the European region, and at that time would be the 
predominant race of the world, an era long before the evolution 
of the Tartar races, and of their still later successors the white men. 
Many lines of study point to the former i)resence of these lowly 
and barbarous races in Europe, as Prof. Sollas considers the 
