. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Guanche. Fig. Nouka-Hivaian. Fig. 294 515. Fejee-Islander. Sandwich-Islander. I have pursued the Oceanic races, somewhat in detail, from theIndian seas across the whole extent of the Pacific Ocean to the shoresof America; where another group of races, of entirely different type,remains yet to be described. My object in this tedious voyage hasbeen, to place before the reader such material a
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Guanche. Fig. Nouka-Hivaian. Fig. 294 515. Fejee-Islander. Sandwich-Islander. I have pursued the Oceanic races, somewhat in detail, from theIndian seas across the whole extent of the Pacific Ocean to the shoresof America; where another group of races, of entirely different type,remains yet to be described. My object in this tedious voyage hasbeen, to place before the reader such material as might enable himto judge whether there is any proof, in this geographical direction,of migrations from the Old to the New World, that could accountfor its primitive manner of population. We have beheld, during ourOceanic travels, very opposite types in localities near to each other. 438 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES. as well as many distinct languages; and we have seen the same typeas that of the Polynesians scattered throughout all climates, and yetspeaking dialects of the same language. It now remains to be shown that, (with perhaps some very partialexceptions along the Pacific coast,) the types of America are entirelydistinct from those o
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