The Daily spy., 1850-06-20

but the mouth is generally wider, the nose less prom
nent, and the lips thicker. The complexion is dark
er than the Malay, the skin very soft, and the hair
straight and fiue.
This race includes the Lascars, or natives of Eas-
tern Hindostan, two Of whom, at Sooloo, presented
marked difference from the surrounding Malay pop
ulation The population of Western Hindostan is
much blended with surrounding families. There is
a Telngan tribe or Madagascar, from numbers Of
which, intermixed with negroes, are descended from
the inhabitants of st. Helena.
The Negro Race. Our readers-particularly at
the South-may be supposed sufficiently familiar
with the physical pecuarities of this race. The
pure blood has very much deterorated in the United
States. 1t occupies about one half Of Africa and is
found in most parts Of the globe where there are
Europeans. We have distinct impression of hav-
ing seen individuals of pretty pure descent in West
Broadway in New York. They are everywhere re-
markabe for their fondness for dance music.
The Ettiopian Race. This race intermediatein in
appearance between the Telingan and Negro; and
it nhabs the hottest countries of Africa 1t includes
the Nubians of the Upper Nile, and many other
tribes in Central Africa, of which hardly the names
are known.
AT Zanzibar, DR.. Pickering saw girl from the in
terror who had learned the language, and fromwhom
he, gathered some particulars of her tribe, the
NJ 'Rautt. Her people, she said, ate only milk and
bread. "Children, when hungry, help themselves,
by direct application to the cow They have no
meal times 'sThe men marry as many women as
they please; and each wife has separate house. y
.sThey have no religion; but they eat and Sleep
Happy people Their only trouble seems to be that
''spersons while sleeping are sometimes eaten by
leopards.''
The Hottentot Race This is another interesting
branch Of our African relatives, which the Boses-
mans, Golfers, Hottentots, &C., Of the Cape They
are much like the negroes, but smaller and lighter
complexioned Their lives are passed under even
more unfavorable circumstances than those in which
we find ourselves placed in these regions of ssCom-
mercial Feudalism.'' For example -ssThey live
among rocks and woods; have keen, vivid eve, al
ways on the alert; will spring from rock to rock like
the antelope; sleep in nests which they form in the
bushes, and seldom pass two nights in the same
place; supporting themselves by robbery, or by
catching wild ANIMALS, as reptiles and insects''
The abyssiniGn Race. This has European fea-
lures, with burnt complexion, never SO light as to
show a flush, and crisped or frizzled hair. They
are mostly confined to the table land of Abyssinia,
and mountainous tract that extends into the inte-
rior of the continent; but individuals were seen by
DIR. Pickering in various parts Of the East Having
been early converted to Christianity, they still con-
tinue to make pigrimages to Jerusalem
! The .drGbiGn Race. Our author makes two di-
Visions OF tnls family; the Frank, or European, and
the Oriental As it exists in Northern climates, the
race is distinguished by superior fairness of com
plexion, thinness Of lip, prominence of nose, and
copiousness of beard Blue eyes, and faxen or red
hair, are only found in this race i3e
As it exists in the hottest portion of the globe,
counting II degrees in width from 27 degrees North
from the Atlantic to the Ganges, one third of which
1t populates, it exhibits much variety of face and
feature. Here it can only be distinguished by the
prominence ofprofe, and the absence ofcertan Sc
ries Of expressions peculiar to otherfamil
One of DIR. Pickering's reasons for this classica-
ton Of the family is derived from the languages
Sin course ofmy recent tour, he observes, 81 was
continually hearing from the lips of Ofientals the
words of different ancient and modern European Ian
guages; until at last, the whole class of these Ian
guages seemed as if merely recomposed from frag-
ments of Arabic and Sanscrit; of fragments, indeed
which have been disguised more or less by inter
changes during some thousands of years, and ifany
European words can be traced to different source.
they at least remain to be pointed out
The same state of things appears to exist in the
Malay class of languages; and instances have been
discovered of English words which can be traced
through the Sanscrt to the remotest islands of the
Pacifc.''
NJ I'M