. The British empire: a sketch of the geography, growth, natural and political features of the United Kingdom, its colonies and dependencies . EL . Nj i B t v- ? ?* > FURTHERINDIA 8 i t s1aads. 217 PART IN ASIA. The British possessions in Asia consist of British India, theEastern Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Labuan, Hong-Kong, andAden. With regard to the great mass of our dependencies inAsia, English settlement there stands alone in this respect,that while in the other great divisions of the earth—inAmerica, Africa, and Australasia—we have come into contactwith races who have
. The British empire: a sketch of the geography, growth, natural and political features of the United Kingdom, its colonies and dependencies . EL . Nj i B t v- ? ?* > FURTHERINDIA 8 i t s1aads. 217 PART IN ASIA. The British possessions in Asia consist of British India, theEastern Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Labuan, Hong-Kong, andAden. With regard to the great mass of our dependencies inAsia, English settlement there stands alone in this respect,that while in the other great divisions of the earth—inAmerica, Africa, and Australasia—we have come into contactwith races who have either never emerged from the savagestate, or, as in New Zealand, have become only semi-civilisedthrough our influence : in Asia our countrymen have plantedthemselves among tribes who were rulers in a civilised worldprobably before England was peopled at all, or at least was inthe depths of barbarism, but who, nevertheless, are related to usby some identity of origin nearer than that which is common tothe whole family of man. Here the Caucasian of the north hasmet face to face the Caucasian of the south; and hence settle-ment in Asia has not, in the main, been a displacement or ex-ter
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