155.—CHINESE GIRL.

THE BROWN RACE.

With M. d’Omalius d’Halloy we class in the Brown Race a great variety of peoples who have nothing in common but a complexion darker than that of the White and Yellow races, and whom we are led to believe the product of the mixture of these two with the Black Race. This theory accounts for one portion of the Brown Race possessing White characteristics, while the other has a greater resemblance to the Yellow Race.

The Brown Race forms three branches or geographical groups, viz.—

  1. The Hindoo branch.
  2. The Ethiopian branch.
  3. The Malay branch.

We will proceed to describe the principal peoples belonging to these three branches.