. 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 . terials lack forsatisfactory anatomical comparison. There is to befound in print very little to aid the craniologist,beyond the magnificent plates of Dumoutier, fromwhich we have extensively borrowed; but his texthas not yet been published ; nor do drawings alonefurnish the information required. All travellersand every anatomist agree, however, in placingthese Oceanic Negroes at the bottom of the
. 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 . terials lack forsatisfactory anatomical comparison. There is to befound in print very little to aid the craniologist,beyond the magnificent plates of Dumoutier, fromwhich we have extensively borrowed; but his texthas not yet been published ; nor do drawings alonefurnish the information required. All travellersand every anatomist agree, however, in placingthese Oceanic Negroes at the bottom of the scaleof races; and, at the same time, the Alforians aredescribed as totally different from every group ofNegroes on the African continent. Therefore, the supposition of any community of origin between these Australasians andthe true Nigritians — neither of them migratory races, and widely separated by oceans —would be too gratuitous to merit refutation. So *lso would be any hypotheses based uponclimatic influences, when the zones of their respective habitats are as opposite in nature,as the races of Malaysia are distinct from those of Africa, and, at the same time, geogra-phically Alfour. Polynesian Race. An elaborate account of this race may be found in Prichards Physical History of Mankind • but I rely more particularly on the later work of M. Jacquinot; inasmuch as it is,in every respect, deserving of confidence and admiration : coming, besides, from a naturalistwho has seen these tribes in their various localities:— The Polynesian race is well marked and distinct; it inhabits all Malaysia and the greaterpart of Polynesia, comprising the numerous islands separated by dUrville under the nameof Micronesia. The general characters of this race may be thus given :—Skin tawny, of a yellow colorwashed with bistre, more or less deep; very light in some, almost brown in others. Hair,black, bushy, smooth and sometimes frizzled. Eyes black, more split than open, not
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