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 .. . dagascans, the first two inhabitingthe Sunda archipelago and the Pacific is-lands, and the latter the island of Mad-agascar. 7. The Mongolians, with their three va-rieties of Indo-Chinese, Coreo-Japanese,Altaians, and Uralians, the first belong-ing to Thibet and China, the second toCorea and Japan, the third to Centraland Northern Asia, and the fourth to?Northwestern Asia and Hungary in Europe. M.—Vol. 1—28 8. The
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 .. . dagascans, the first two inhabitingthe Sunda archipelago and the Pacific is-lands, and the latter the island of Mad-agascar. 7. The Mongolians, with their three va-rieties of Indo-Chinese, Coreo-Japanese,Altaians, and Uralians, the first belong-ing to Thibet and China, the second toCorea and Japan, the third to Centraland Northern Asia, and the fourth to?Northwestern Asia and Hungary in Europe. M.—Vol. 1—28 8. The Arctics, with the two principaldivisions of Hyperboreans and Esqui-maux, belonging respectively to North-eastern Asia and Northeastern America. 9. The Americans, with four leading;divisions, the North Americans (In-dians), Central Americans, South Amer-icans, and Patagonians, distributed ac-cording to their several ethnic names. 10. The Dravidians, with two race de-velopments, the Deccanese of India andthe Singalese of Ceylon. 11. The Nubians, with their three va-rieties, the Shangallas and Dongolese ofNubia, and the Fulahs of Fulah. 12. The Mediterraneans, divided ac-. ESQUIMAU TYPES. cording to this scheme into Caucasians,Basques, Semites, and Indo-Europeans;the first of these four being named fromthe range of the Caucasus, the secondbelonging to the northeastern portion ofSpain, the third being limited to EasternEurope and portions of Northern Africa,and the Indo-European branch beingnearly coincident with the Europeandivision of the Aryan race as defined inthe linguistic scheme above. We thus have, according to the geo-graphical scheme, no fewer than twelvemajor divisions of human kind, repre-sented by thirty-seven different races, 426 GREAT RACKS OF MANKIND. many of which arc in turn divided andsubdivided into various peoples andtribes, according to their localities, lan-guages, and ethnic peculiarities. On the whole, this method of elassifica-ti< m according to th
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