OTIIER RACES.
The Black naer.—Examples are the Negritos of the Philippines, the Papuans and their Mela nesian kindred, the Andaman islanders, and a feW small tribes in the Malay Peninsula. such as the Sakai and the Sermangs. Some ethnolo gists maintain that the white, yellow, and brown races were preceded all over southeastern Asia and a great part of the Malayo-Polynesian area by tribes of the black race, which they re gard as nearer to the original human stock. [t would seem, however, that the yellow race, from its nearness to the type of the child, and for certain psyehie reasons, has an equal claim to this distinction—The lied Hare. In the extreme northeast of the continent, about East Cape, dwell the (nit, a people of Eskimo stock, whose numbers were much larger formerly. As immi grants from Arctic America, these Ynit represent the Amerinds or red race of America. Sonic of the Aleuts also, who belong to the Eskimo stock, have wandered from island to island until they have reached the Asiatic coast, while a few have been transferred thither by the Russians.—Pro pies of Doubtful Affinities. Snell are the Aino of
Japan, the Mimetse and perhaps some other primitive peoples of China, some of the tribes of Formosa, the Cambodian Khmers, the Veddas of Ceylon, and the Dravidian and Kolarian peoples of India. Of these, the Aino represent probably a very ancient mixture of primitive white and yellow races, and the same may be true of the Miao-tse and the Khmers. The For mosans seem largely Malayan. The Dravidians more by language than by physical type stand distinct from the mass of Indian natives, and though ethnologists are inclined to group them with the Australians, they represent, more prob ably, a mixture of early negroid, yellow, and white types. They are now oonsiderably Aryan ized in culture and assimilated more to the type of the white race in India. The Veddas, one of the most primitive peoples in existence, are an older, mixed people of similar ancestry. Some of the Dravidian peoples (Tamil, Telugu, etc.) have shown themselves capable of a high degree of culture, while others still linger in barbarism.