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Show ()28 EX PLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F T ll E 'I' ABLE AU. No. 29.- CAFFR. [" Umlxunbu (young llulu In danolog oo~tumo) :"-{}. FRENOU AKOA8, KqJ!r1 lllullraWJ, London, Col., 1840.] }'or good descriptions -loss tinctured with "Exotor Hall" philanthropy than ourrout English reports- seo D•JLOOROUI'l ( Voycrge dant l'.Afriqrtc .Auttral~ - "Oafres Amazoulous ot 111nl<Missos," Pnris, 1847, 2 vola. 8vo); who has likowiso exhibited th se nntions in their true light, in "Noto sur los Cafros" (Bulletin Soc. de Etlmologique de Paris, 1847, pp. 182-48). Contt·nst Lou1s AI.n~R'rl ( Desc1·iption pliysiqrte et liittoriqu~ dct C<Jfrtt, Amstortlnm, 8vo, 1811, p. 21)), and LI<J VAILLANT, (2d Voy. dans Z' lnterieur de 1.' .Afrique, Paris, 1788-5, II, Pl. XXI, III, pp. 88-18{)), with LrOII'I'JoJNSn;rN (Travels in Soutll Africa, London, 4to, 1812), who overthrows llnrrow's Sinicollottontot prodiloctions, whilst subRtantinting, ad pugnandum, this htst naturalist's deductions. PATTERSON's Narrative (London, 1789), SPAllltMAN's Cap de Bonne Etparance (Pnris, 1787), and SALT's .Abystinia (London, 1814) fumish nmplo matorinls for Polygcnists. No. 30.- HOTTENTOT. [l!ortrnft of" IIottontot, !\god" 62 anH -oostumo nt\turol-a on 10 onfi<n6"-cxhlbftocl 1\t Paris, 185il-~; photogrnphcd by M. J,, J.louas~AU- Gale1'it .Antlt?·opologigue du Afuscu.ll> 1.1' llistoire Naturello:-vldo lnfru, pp. 008]. My friend, Mr. J. Barnard Davia, having shown me tho two full -aizo colored casts of "Bushmen," male and female, in the Royal College of Surgeons, I am free to say that they difl'er as muoh from anything human I ovor saw, as a pure Ln.conian greyhoJmd docs from o. "pug." Oolored from Pl. 24 of PflnoN, Voy. et Decouv. au:r: Terres Attslralu (Dnudin's). Excellent drawings, showing tho gradatiom of fonture in llottenlolt, ](uf!rs, Bo•;'tsmarrs, Boosliwa11M, &o. in DANIKLL (Sketcliet •·epreunti11g tile Native J.'ribes, .A11imals a11d Sce11ery of Soutliem Africa, London, 4to, 1820); who, spcnl<ing of tlic .female Hottentot, o.dds (p. 20) thnt, when young she is symmotl'ical, but "gradually dcgenerntos into thoso deformities which n,ro too well known to require a partioulnr mention." No. I assort tho.t those poouUnrities-wbicb inoontostflbly provo the Hottentots to be n. distinct "spocios"- aro not only little known, but thnt tho !'nets have boon suppressed-and by Cuvnm himself-in order not to al11rm Monogonists! Tho subject (seo Typtt of Jfa11lrit~d, p. 431, wood-out 276) is not fiLted for eluoidntion in n popular work liko the present; but tho President of our Academy of Nat. Sciences, Mr. Ord, possesses the ~uppressed pln,teij (which he 1tns kindly shown me), nnd knows whore tho original colorotl dmwings matlc nt the Cnpe by P~ttON and LEamluR M·e preserved. (Sec Quo, "Memoir or Charles Alox. Leaueur,"-Siltiman's Journal, 2d series, 184.!), vrn, pp. 204- li, 210 :-and take note that, of tho platog beautifnlly ongt·aved for tho "Voynge nux Torres Austrnle~t," 4 (exhibiting the "'l'ablier" with n,mttzing minutonoHH, and at all n,gce,) woro suppt·essed, by Cuvior's order, in tho 1 at ed. 1816, nttcl iu tho 2d, 1881; because tho livr• of Mr. Ord's unique copy hns 28 (1 with 2 figures); wheren,s thnt published by At·thua Bortrnnd conlttins ouly 25 plntee.] A more disgraceful case of unsoientifio pancler·ing to tho "Unity of the human 1pecie1" cnn nowhere bo found. PolygoniHt~ will, notwitltatandiltg, g?t nt these truths some dny; ond, in t.he interim, cn.n gnther an osteological drfforeneo between Hottentots and other "species" from KNox (Race~. Philnd. ed., 1860, pp. 162, 157); n.s well ns read tho comments of Vnnw (lii&t. Nat. drt Genre Humain, PariR, 1824, 1, pp. 224, 244-58 ). It is to tho injudicious observations of JouN BAnRow (Fronch trnnalntion by EX 1' LAN AT 10 N S 0 F 1' II E '1' A B L 1~ AU. G2D Cnijt(iro., Voyage en Chine, Paris, 1806, I, pp. 77-82, Pl. IV, AtlaR,)-and to his n.lono- thnt a notion hn,a got abroad thn,t tho Cllineu and tho Jiottmtot• resemble each other I l'JCK~lltiNO (llaces, 4to, p. 210), forty ycnrs later, fl'llnkly states, "ln.m not suro Llillt I lmvo aoou Jlottoutots of pure raco." v. AMERICAN REALM. (Nos. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42.) To ourselves in Amol'ioa this being naturally the most interesting, we may devote to its consideration n few more parugro.phs thuu space lldmittod for tho others. "ln fino, our own conclusion, long ngo deduced from n patient oxttminn,tion of the faot~ thus briefly and inn,dequatoly stilted, is, that the A mcrican race is eumtially uparatc mul peculia•·, whothot· wo rogl\l'd it in its physicnl, ita mornl, or its intelloctmtl rolntions. 1'o us there are 110 direct or obvious links betwee11 lite people of the old world and the new; for, oven admitting the seeming nnalogies to which wo ltnvo nlluded, these nro so fow in number aml evidently so onsual Bij not to invalidnto the main position; an<! oven should it bo horonftl't' shown, that the arts, scioncos, and religion of America can bo traced to an oxotio source, J nt11intain that tho orgnoic oharo.ctors of tho people tbomsolves, through n.ll their endless rttmitications of t1·ibcs 1nrd nntions, provo them to belong to ono nnd tho same r11oe, and tlmt tllis rae~ is distinct from all otl•eri' (MOUTON, Distinctive Characterittics of tile .Aboriginal Rare of America, Philndelphin, 8vo, 2d od., 1844, pp. 36-6). The Spanish Conl)uistndoros lmd long ago remnrkcd tbat "ho who has soon ono tribe of Indians, has soon nll :" but, it must bo nlso remembered thnt Ur.r.oA, who first uses this soutcnco, wns spcnkiug of Central and South Amcricnn abol'igiuos; and not of tlto Northern, or Barbarous (as distinguished from i'oltocan), races, - with whom be was wholly unn. oquttinted. "Tho half-chtd Fuogiau, shrinking from his dreary win tor, hns tho same ohnrnoteristio Jinoamonts, though in fHI exrtggo1·atod dogreo, ns tho Indinns of the tropical plnius; am! th ose, ngrtin, roscmblo tho tribos which inhnbit tho 1·egion west of tho ltocky Mountninatboso of tho groat Valley of tho Mississippi, nnd thoso, ngain, which skirt tho J~ skimaux on tho North. All possess nliko tho long, lnnk, blnok hnir, tho brown or cinnamon-colored skin, tho hoavy brow, tbo dull nnd sleepy eye, tho ful11tnd compressed lips, nnd the Pnliont, hut dilntetl nose ... . Tho snmo eonformit.y of orgn,nization is not less obvious in tho osteological 8tructuro of those pooplo, as seen in tho sq unro or rounded head, tho fln.ttenod ot• vertionl occiput, the lnrgo quadrn,ngulnr orbits, nnd tho low, receding forchend ... . Mere exco1 lions to a goneml rnlo do not nlter tho peculiar physiognomy of tho Tndinn, which is as undevintingly chnmoteristic as thnt of tho Negr·o; for whether we seo l1im in tho nthletio Chnrib or the stunted Chaymn, in tho d1uk Cnliforninn or tho fair Dorron., Ito is n,n Jndimt still, 1111d cannot be mistake7tfor a bei11g q( any otl1er 1·ace" (l\10itTON, Op. cit., pp. 4-5 :-'l'ypcs of ;l/ankind, p. 481J). While 111toly 11t P11ris, my friend M. Mnury favored me witl1 tho loan of a book, tlt~n just issued ft·om tho press of (Cherbulicz) Genova,- by M. F. l)f: nouo~:MONT (Le peupl~ primitij, ta •·el~'7io1r, t0111iistoire ct sa civilisation, 2 vola. 8vo, 1856). As lear·ncd f\8 tho work~ of CouNT m1 OtJJBLJN, Dr·l PAUW, DE OuroNrls, D~1 FouaMON'I', BArr,LY, WAnnunTON, or DuPUIS, it fnr surpnsses that of FA ourt (Origin of Pagan idolatry) in the immcnMity of it~ goographion,l mnge nnd tho vnriety of its litomry BOUl'CCB. Having been, in duo course of tirno, reviewed by J\1. Mrtury himself (Atltena:um Franya.i1, 6 Octobro 1865), ~omo passng~M of his n,rticlo, bonring upon tho litornry chnrnctcr of our on.rlicst post-Columbinn authorities for Amoricnn history, aro bore introduced. |