VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 
137 
general colour of her skin was a hrownisii yellow, almost us deep as that 
of her face. Her movements liad something hasty and capiicious in 
them, like those of an Ape. She had the same habit of pushing out her 
bps, as may be observed in the Orang-Outang. Her height was about four 
feet nine inches, which appears, according to the report of her country- 
men, to be much above the usual size. 
The tribe of Boschismans, which is probably identical with that of the 
Houzouunas, described by M. Le Vaillant, has its facial angle no greater 
than 75", and approaches nearer to tlie brute in this respect as it does in 
many others, than most other branches of the human species. 
The Hottentots and Boschismans occupy the extreme Southern point 
of Africa, but do not extend within the tropics ; they are spread around 
the basin of the Oranae River under the names of Gonaquois, Naniaquois, 
Coranas, Boschismans, and Houzouanas. 
The Caffres, as well as the Colonists of the Cape, wage a war of ex- 
termination against the unfortunate Hottentots, who wander about 
clothed in skins, besmeared with black or red grease, in the midst o< 
their cattle, which form their whole possessions. 
ANOMALOUS RACES. 
Stjn. VABiETiis DE Races MOtNs distinctfs.— Desm. Mam. 47. 
The southern portion of the peninsula, situate immediately be- 
yond the Ganges, is inhabited by the Malays (//. Malayemis), who 
approximate more nearly to the Hindoos in their physical charac- 
'ers than to the Mongolians. Their race and language are widely 
dispersed throughout the coasts of nearly all the islands of the In- 
dian Archipelago. 
The innumerable small islands of the Southern Ocean are also 
peopled by a handsome race (//. Polynesius), apparently resembling 
die Hindoos, while their language bears many [remote] analogies 
hi the Malayan. 
Rut the interior districts of the larger islands, and more cspeci- 
'^by their wildest territories, are inhabited by another race (H. Aus- 
^^alusicus), with dark complexions, and approaching more nearly 
to the Negro in form. These islanders, who live in a state of ex- 
treme barbarity, are coinmonly termed Alfooroos [and may be sub- 
divided into two branches, the Proper Australians {H. Amtralius) 
®''d the Oceanic Negroes (//. Mela7Hnusy\- 
-^gain, we find upon the coasts of New Guinea and the neigh- 
itouring islands, a race commonly termed Papoos {H. Papuensis), 
^nd nearly resembling the Cadres of the Eastern Coast of Africa. 
lie inhabitants of New Holland (//. Australius) are regarded as 
•Alfooroos, while those of Van Diemen’s land should rather be 
Considered as Papoos [or Tasmanians].* 
R is not very easy to refer either the Malays or Papoos to any 
the three Normal Races, for the former merge by insensible gra- 
dations, on the one hand, into the Hindoos of the Caucasian races, 
'tt'd on the other, into the Chinese of the Mongolian race, so that 
"'6 can scarcely point out any characteristics sufficiently marked to 
distinguish them. We are not yet in possession either of figures 
descriptions sufficiently exact to decide whether the Papoos [as 
*'*“10 have conjectured] are not merely Negroes, w ho have anciently 
list their way upon the Indian Seas. 
The tribes (//. Hyperhorem) who inhabit the northern extremity 
j'i both continents, such as the Samoids® and the Esquimaux, 
"^'lug, according to some writers, to the Mongolian race ; according 
'■'* ethers, they are merely some degenerate off sets of the Scythian 
fartar branch of the Caucasian races. The Americans thera- 
^elve.s (//. Americaniis) have not hitherto been clearly referred to 
one of the race.s found in the Ancient Continent, yet they have 
'"*1 those precise and constant characters which would permit us 
** olevate them to the rank of a Normal race. Their reddish cop- 
Por-coloured complexioti is not a sufficient one, while their hair, 
^®"®''nll,V black, and their scanty beards, would lead us to include 
"nt among the Mongolian races, if their harshly-defined counte- 
’'niices, their nose as prominent as ours, their large and projecting 
did not oppose this arrangement, and assimilate them more 
"oarly tQ Jim forms of countenance. Their languages 
are as innumerable as their tribes, and all attempts to demonstrate 
a satisfactory analogy between the latter and the dialects of the Old 
World have hitherto failed.’ 
A. HOMO MALAYENSIS -MALAYS. 
Syn- Les Malais. — Cuv. Reg. Anini. I. 83. Less Mam. I. 24. 
Race Mai.aie. — U esm. Mam. 47 (in part). 
II. Neptuniancs, Race Malaise (Ouientale). — B ory, Ess. Zool. I. 
281 . 
Malaise ou Oceanique — Desmoul. Tab. 
H. Sapiens, vao. Malayana (in part) — Biumenb. Hand. 
Icon. Biumenb. Dec. Cram IV. t. 39. (Skull of a Javanese.) 
Puron Voy. pi. 38 to 43. 
The Malays were first recognised as a distinct race during the twelfth 
century, when some of their tribes, emigrating from Alenang-Kabou in 
Sumatra, founded Singhapoura, and established the principal seat of their 
power at Johor, in the peninsula of Malacca. This w'arlike and commer- 
cial people have rendered themselves masters of the sea coast of most 
of the islands in the Indian Archipelago, and have either extirpated the 
original inhabitants, or driven theni to the mountains of the interior, where 
the Alfooroos long existed, unknown to European navigators. 
From a continual intercourse with the Moors of the Red Sea they 
have acquired the Mahometan Religion, with many Arabian customs, 
while other traditions and customs are evidently derived from their 
neighbours the Hindoos. The inhabitants of Java, mixed with Arabic 
blood, have long composed several powerful and populous states. In 
the neighbouring Islands of Borneo, Celebes, Tidore, Teniati, Sumatra, 
and Sooloo, we find the same race established, though often modified in 
some degree from an extensive intercourse with Europeans and Chinese. 
But the Malayan race may be found in its greatest purity in the Islands 
of Gnchay, Oby, Gilolo, Flotis, Lombok, and Bali. 
In all the governments of the Malays, we find the despotic form of the 
Hindoos universally adopted, where the person of the Rajah is held in 
the profoundest veneration. Capable of the blackest [lerfidy and dupli- 
city, and with an ardent thirst for revenge, the Malays areas celebrated in 
tlie East for their treachery, as some Atlantic nations once were for their 
“ Punic faith.” The annals of Malayan history are one continued record 
of assassination and treason, while in all ages piracy has been, with a large 
portion of the population, one favourite mode of acquiring a livelihood. 
Professing the tenets of Islamisiii, the Malays adopt polygamy, and 
other precepts of the Koran, but modified by several Hindoo dogmas. 
Their chiefs are richly clad according to the Hindoo manner, while the 
lower orders go about entirely naked, with the exception of a narrow 
piece of cloth round the waist. In general, the Malay is sensual and dis- 
solute in the extreme, passionately devoted to intoxicating liquors and 
opium ; and, above all, to the practice of chewing the betel-nut. This 
drug appears almost peculiar to the Malayan race, in whose territory the 
materiids are plentifully to be found. The Pinaiig {Areca), the Pepper, 
and occasionally also the Cashew, with some calcareous earth, form its 
ingredients. 
For 1 
I „ » further Itnovf ledge of the different races who iieople the Islands of India and the Pacific Ocean, consult the Dissertation of MM. Lesson and G.irnot, in the 
oo/ogic da Voyage dc la Coimille." D. 1-1 13 I and for the languages of the Asiatic nations and their mutual relations, see the “ Asia Polyt/hUa of M. Klaproth. — 
Huron Cuvier. ' , ■ i- i . • i 
onl. includes the Laplanders in this enumeration (Reg. Anim. p. 84) ; and M. Garnet (Voyage do la Coquille, tome I. p. 512) is disposed to consider a part 
hran g* yi’^thorcana. We have been induced (see before, p. 132), from the affinity of their language to the Fiiiuie or Tchoude dialects, to place them in the ocythian 
g nf the Caucasians. , * . • r sr j nr- , . 
or,, the subject of the Americans besides tlie Voyage of M. Von Humboldt, so rich in important documents, consult the Dissertations of Vater and Mitchell , — Note 
■' Huron Cuvier. 
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