Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . pure Malays, as is seen by their more curly hair, oftenprominent and even aquiline noses. It seems likely that anAsiatic race closely allied to Malays may have spread overthe South Sea Islands, altering their special type bycrossing with the dark Melanesians, so that now thepopulations of difierent island groups often vary muchin appearance. This race of sailors even found theirway to Madagascar, where their descendants have more orless blended with a population from the continent of now to the double continent
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . pure Malays, as is seen by their more curly hair, oftenprominent and even aquiline noses. It seems likely that anAsiatic race closely allied to Malays may have spread overthe South Sea Islands, altering their special type bycrossing with the dark Melanesians, so that now thepopulations of difierent island groups often vary muchin appearance. This race of sailors even found theirway to Madagascar, where their descendants have more orless blended with a population from the continent of now to the double continent of Amrrica, we findin this New World a problem of race remarkably differentfrom that of the Old World. The traveller who shouldcross the earth from Nova Zemlya to the Ccpe of GoodHope or Van Diemens Land would find in its variousclimates various strongly-marked kinds of men, white,yellow, brown, and black. But if Columbus had surveyedAmerica from the Arctic to the Antarctic regions, hewould have found no such extreme unlikeness in the Ill J RACES OF MANKIND. 103. Fio. 39 —Dayaks. I04 ANTHROPOLOGY. [chap. inhabitants. Apart from the Europeans and Africans whohave poured in since the fifteenth century, the native
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