^hap. vn. 
THE RACES OF MAN. 
237 
An ''ient monuments and stone implements found in 
a H parts of the world, of which no tradition is pre- 
Se rved by the present inhabitants, indicate much 
extinction. Some small and broken tribes, remnants 
°f former races, still survive in isolated and gene- 
ra % mountainous districts. In Europe the ancient 
ra ces were all, according to Schaaffhausen , 28 “ lower in 
the scale than the rudest living savages; they must 
therefore have differed, to a certain extent, from any 
existing race. The remains described by Professor 
•Broca 29 from Les Eyzies, though they unfortunately 
appear to have belonged to a single family, indicate a 
ra °e with a most singular combination of low or simious 
a nd high characteristics, and is “entirely different 
1 horn any other race, ancient or modern, that we have 
“ ever heard of.” It differed, therefore, from the qua- 
te rnary race of the caverns of Belgium. 
Unfavourable physical conditions appear to have had 
little effect in the extinction of races . 30 Man has 
^° u g lived in the - extreme regions of the North, with 
110 wood wherewith to make his canoes or other imple- 
ments, and with blubber alone for burning and giving 
din warmth, but more especially for melting the snow. 
11 the Southern extremity of America the Euegians 
without the protection of clothes, or of any 
Building worthy to he called a hovel. In South Africa 
^Be aborigines wander over the most arid plains, where 
dangerous beasts abound. Man can withstand the 
deadly influence of the Terai at the toot ot the Hima- 
a ya, and the pestilential shores of tropical Africa. 
f Translation in ‘Anthropological Review, Oet. 1868, p. 431. 
_ J ‘Transact. Internat. Congress of Prehistoric Arch. 1868, p. 172- 
,' 5 - See also Broca (translation) in ‘Anthropological Review,’ Oct. 
P. 410. 
* T»r. Gerland ‘ TJeher das Autsterben dor Naturvolker, 1 1868, s. 82. 
