of Papuan or Malayan race, among whom the primitive Caucasians could have settled; and, if they ultimately passed on eastward, they would certainly have carried with them some indication of such a residence in their language, in the use of the bow-and-arrow, and in the art of making pottery. The deficiency of the whole of the Mahoris in this latter particular is well explained by the theory of their migration step by step through Micronesia from the coasts of Japan or China. In these small islands, mostly of coral with occasionally some basaltic rock, the materials for making pottery would rarely exist, even if among the immigrants there were any persons who knew how to make it. And as it might be a dozen generations, or even much more, before their descendants reached such large islands as those of the Tonga or Samoa groups, all idea of such utensils would have long died out, and the people would be quite content with the modes of cookery they had learnt during their long eastward migration. One other outlier of these brown Caucasians is found in the Mentawi islands, the southernmost of the long chain that lies off the west coast of Sumatra. These people are described as being like Polynesians, but unlike all the true Malayan tribes. Their language in its abundance of vowels is like that of the Mahoris, and the people resemble them also in the mildness of their disposition and their love of floral decoration. Professor Keane regards them as the last remnant in this direction of the ancient Caucasic people that once occupied southeastern Asia and perhaps what are now the larger Malay Islands, but who were elsewhere driven out or exterminated by the Mongolian invasion. Comparison of Australians and the Lower Caucasians. Returning now to the Australians let us see how far they will bear comparison with the remote outposts of the Caucasian race, as illustrated by the reproductions of a few of Professor Spencer's beautiful photographs of the Central Australian tribes. The man of the Arunta tribe (Fig. 85), with his fine beard, his wavy locks and good looking pleasant face, though a little coarser is not very far removed from the man of Samoa (at p. 413), or even from the Tonga man (at p. 411), the very handsomest I have yet seen a portrait of. The two old men guarding the sacred Churinga" (Fig. 86) are hardly less good looking; but I have nowhere been able to obtain a good portrait of a young Australian of pure type and in the prime of life. The nearest approach is the accompanying portrait of a native of the Northern Territory, from Admiral Maclear's collection (Fig. 87). This shows us a similar type to that of the old man figured at p. 462, and the lank slightly wavy hair indicates that there is no admixture of Papuan. FIG. 87.-NATIVE OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA. The face is very similar to that of some of the Hill tribes of the Indian peninsula-the so-called Dravidians-most of whom are probably Caucasians of low type. Again, the two Australian women here represented (Figs. 88 and 89) are but little inferior in type to the woman of Samoa (at p. 414), or even to the Hawaiian girl |