CLASS I. MAMMALIA: OKDER 1. BIMANA. 
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AMERICAN INDIAN : LOGAN, THE MINGO CHIEF. 
tamable, not merely because all attempts to civilize them have failed, but also every endeavor to 
enslave them. Our Lidian tribes submit to extermination, rather than wear the yoke under which 
onr negro slaves fatten and multiply. It has been falsely asserted that the Choctaw and Cherohee 
Indians have made great progress in civilization. I assert positively, after most ample investiga- 
tion of the facts, that the pure-blooded Indians are everywhere unchanged in their habits. Many 
Avhite persons settling among the above tribes have intermarried with them, and all such trumpeted 
progress exists among these whites and their mixed breeds, alone. The pure-blooded savage still 
skulks untamed through the forest, or gallops athwart the prairie. Can any one call the name of 
a single pure Indian of the barbarous tribes, who— except in death, like a wild-cat— has done any 
thing worthy of remembrance f 
5. THE MALAY VAEIETY. 
Brown color, from a light tawny to a deep brown. Hair black, more or less curled, and abun- 
dant ; head rather narrow ; bones of the face large and prominent ; nose full, and broad toward 
the apex ; mouth large. In this are included the inhabitants of Malacca, of Sumatra, Java, Bor- 
neo, Celebes, and the adjacent Asiatic islands ; of the Molucca, Ladrone, Philippine, Marian, and 
Caroline groups; of Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Guinea, New Zealand, and of all the 
islands of the South Sea. 
The epithet Oceanic is sometimes applied to this group, because, with the exception of the pen- 
insula of Malacca, the tribes belonging to it are the inhabitants of islands exclusively. With the ex- 
ception of Mauritius, the Isle of Bourbon, Ceylon, the Seychelles, the Maldives, and the Laccadivefi 
