Chap. YII. 
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getker in large numbers in tke same country, ke would 
immediately discover tkat tkis was by no means the 
case. In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel 
population of Negroes and Portuguese ; in Chiloe and 
other parts of South America, he would behold the 
whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards 
blended in various degrees . 15 In many parts of the 
same continent he would meet with the most complex 
crosses between Negroes, Indians, and Europeans ; and 
such triple crosses afford the severest test, judging from 
the vegetable kingdom, of the mutual fertility of the 
parent-forms. In one island of the Pacific he would 
find a small population of mingled Polynesian and 
English blood ; and in the Yiti Archipelago a popula- 
tion of Polynesians and Negritos crossed in all degrees. 
Many analogous cases could be added, for instance, in 
South Africa. Hence the races of man are not suffi- 
ciently distinct to co-exist without fusion ; and this it 
is, which in all ordinary cases affords the usual test of 
specific distinctness. 
Our naturalist would likewise be much disturbed as 
soon as he perceived that the distinctive characters of 
every race of man were highly variable. This strikes 
every one when he first beholds the negro-slaves in 
Brazil, who have been imported from all parts of Africa. 
The same remark holds good with the Polynesians, and 
with many other races. It may be doubted whether 
any character can be named which is distinctive of a 
race and is constant. Savages, even within the limits of 
the same tribe, are not nearly so uniform in character, 
as has often been said. Hottentot women offer certain 
15 M. (le Quatrefages has given (‘ Anthropolog. Review/ Jan. 1869, 
p. 22) an interesting account of the success and energy of the Paulistas 
in Brazil, who are a much crossed race of Portuguese and Indians, with 
a mixture of the blood of other races. 
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