[49] Terms applied to geographical distribution rather than to physical conformation; _Malay_ and _Negrito_ being terms expressive of physical conformation rather than of geographical distribution.
[57] Rajah Brooke's Journal, vol. i. p. 83.
[62] United States' Exploring Expedition.
[63] According to the map and nomenclature of Dumont Durville.
[66] _Amphi-nesian_, from _amfi_=_around_, and _næsos_=_island_; _Protonesian_, from _protos_=_first_; _Kelino-nesian_, from _kelainos_=_black_. This last term is Prichard's. I am aware that all these forms are, etymologically, incorrect. The first part is Greek, the termination, _-an_, Latin; so that they are impossible words in the language from which they are supposed to be taken. Still the forms _Polynesian_ and _Peloponnesian_, establish a convenient, though exceptionable, precedent.
[67] "This house resembled the smaller houses we afterwards saw in New Guinea, and it may have been erected merely in imitation of those the islanders have seen in that country. We afterwards saw, on Masseed, a solitary house like those of Darnley and Murray Islands."
[70] Denoting that by some writers the Vanikoro tribes have been placed in another class. Their language has been considered as Polynesian rather than Papua.
[75] A work of Purkinje on the distribution of the sounds in different languages, I know only from the reference to it in Müller's Physiology. The beautiful application of this by Professor Graves, of Dublin, will be noticed when speaking of the ethnology of Ireland.
[76] Captain Gray; from Prichard. Vol. v.
[78] United States' Exploring Expedition, vol. vi.
[79] Parum fecundæ mulieres; apud quas quinta Lucina rarissimum. Viri inculpantur; quorum Venus plerumque præcox et effræna, ebrietas perpetua.
[80] Zoffany; Asiatic Researches, vol. ii.
[82] Asiatic Researches, vol. iv. p. 131.
We are now in Siberia rather than in Central Asia; along the courses of large rivers rather than at their head-waters; and in a region of _tundras_, or flat barren morasses, rather than on elevated steppes. We are also in the country of the rein-deer and dog rather than the horse and sheep. Fishing and fur-hunting, too, will form a portion of the occupations of the Hyperborean Mongolidæ. These conditions, different as they are in many respects from the general conditions of the Turk and Mongolian Turanians, have still been met with before, _i.e._ with the Northern Ugrians, the Northern Tungusians, and the Yakuts. One of the nations about to be enumerated, occupies the most northern portion of the inhabited world, _i.e._ the Samöeids of the Northern promontory of Asia.