Nebraska advertiser., 1863-02-07

will any better. Those monkeys SEEM
10 be, especially. of avery tender ma
ture, and. in order to manifest the afec-
lions to persons they know and love, they
embrace and kiss them with astonishing
transports of JOY. They also perform an
acAwhich is seen with no animal, aud
which IS very usual with children, it is
to beat the ground with Joy or vexatlOn
when they are given or refused what
they very passionately desire. Although
they are very large flor those / saw
measured at least four feet in height,
their agility and adrOitness is incredible.
1t is a pleasure which raises to admlra.
tion to see them run on the cordages of
a ship, where they play sometimes as
though they had learned the peculiar art
of vaulting, or had been paid, like our
rope dancers, to amuse the crowd"
Of all the different species of animals,
terrestrial or aq uatie, the monkey is the
species which most resembles man and
among the different races of monkeys,
that which most perfectly resembles maj
is the O~rang-outang. This animal has a
tongue like ours, but he does not speak
nor think. Thus the interval which sep
arates him from our race is total,
immense, as great and as real as can
be. The conformity of his face
neither draws him near to human ma
ture, nor raises him above the nature Of
animals: in a word. if we deprive him Of
his mask, it remains of him but a mon
ken. Notwithstanding the most perfect
resemblance of figure, it is evident that
the man and the monkey are two species
essentially different. Therefore, if 1t
were true that there is in nature some
species of fish or quadrupeds which should
have more or less resemblance with the
human figure, it cannot follow that those
animals are of different species or differ
ent races of men.
IL. It results from all we have said on
the different varieties which we observe
in the human species, that human spe-
cies cannci and ought not to be divided
but into three races, accidentally differ
ent, which are the white.race, the negro
race, the, tartar-race ); and such is the d.
vision given nowadays by the most eel
ebrated naturalists. We shall soon ex-
anime whether these three races may
have a common origin, and how one may
come from the other, or be metamor-
phised into the other.
Concerning the propagation and the
mixture of these different races, we know
that the offspr NO Of 8 negro and negress,
is a negro, in Europe as we'll as in Afri-
ca, and that the s%ojourn of one or sever.
al centuries within the temperate zones
will not p%ercepubly change the primitive
colOr;-lhat the offspring of a white man
and negress, or of a negro and a white
person, is a mulatto. half white and half
black that the offspring of a white and
a mulatto, or of a negro and a mulatlo,
is a quadroon, the former three quarters
white and q quarter black, the lat
ter three quarters black and one quarter
white that the offspring of a white and
a quadroon, or of a negro and a quadroon,
is an Octaroon, the former seven eigh,hs
white aud a eighth black, the latter
seven eighths black and one eighth
white; that the offspring of a white and
an octaron, or of a negro and an ocla-
on, Of his own color, is the former,
whole white, the latter whole black.
We may Thereby easily conceive what
may be the result of the mixture of the
white race with the tartar race, or of
the tartar race with the negro race
The effective mixture of those three IA
ces has multiplied, asst were, ad intfni-
tam, in Asia, the differential shades of
the human species,
Some naturalists opine that that The
human species ought to be divided only
into two races, the white and the black.
and that the tartar race is not sufficient
ly different from the white and black
races, to make a race apart. The off,
spring of a negro and a mulatto or a
qu%adroon, they say, would be a quadroon
or an octaron, which the difference of
climate and of the way of living would
easily transform them into a tartar.
A. g.
TO BE coNTISUED.)