Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . uth. As already noted, the westernstream of this family terminates inSpain, at about ten degrees west fromGreenwich. The eastern boundary ofthe Greenland Esquimaux may be givenat about twenty degrees west. Thenorthern excursions of this race havereached to at least the eightieth paral-lel north; from which we may gatherthat through three hundred and fifty de-grees of longitude and a hundred and thirty-five degrees
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . uth. As already noted, the westernstream of this family terminates inSpain, at about ten degrees west fromGreenwich. The eastern boundary ofthe Greenland Esquimaux may be givenat about twenty degrees west. Thenorthern excursions of this race havereached to at least the eightieth paral-lel north; from which we may gatherthat through three hundred and fifty de-grees of longitude and a hundred and thirty-five degrees of latitude the descendants ofthe Browm races of mankind have beendispersed by the natural forces to whichbarbarians in their migratory movementsare subject! Chapter XXX.—Distribution ok the Black Races. S compared with thecomplexity and extentof the dispersion of theBrown races of man-kind, the Black divi-sions and departuresof the human familyare simple and easy of are confined, in general terms, tothat portion of the African continent ly-ing south of the twentieth parallel ofnorth latitude, and to Australia and theMieronesian islands. The fact that the. Indian ocean lies between these Africanand Australian dispersions of the race, and that the presence of General charac- Black peoples isnotdiscov- X^iSSSS^ ?erable in any other of the tion-great continents, except by reason of re-cent civilizing movements, introducesthe one great difficulty in determiningthe origin whence both streams of therace have flowed. Tt is this circum-stance, moreover, which has in a greatmeasure fortified the hypothesis thatunder the Indian ocean lies the sub- 526 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. merged continent of Lemuria, the an-cestral home of all the races of men. Granted the existence in prehistoricages of such a continent, and the sub-x,emuria neces- sequent dispersion of man-Birayck°dlspX-the kind on the monogeneticsion- hypothesis becomes not only plausible, but easy and natural
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