Ridpath's Universal history - an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the (14790484483)

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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900

Subjects: World history

Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the human land-scape in these remote parts of theearth. One general fact may be observedabout the position of the Blacks and theBrowns in these regions, inversion of theand that is, that the normal ^S?Si emplacement of the two Brown families. races seems to be inverted: the Blackslie to the south, while the Browns tendto the equatorial belt. Judging byAfrica, we should conclude that thenormal place of the B^ack race is equa-torial—that that race is only incidental-ly and with difficulty deflected into thetemperate zone. When, however, webegin to follow the Dravidian line ofdispersion eastward by way of SouthernIndia and Ceylon, we find a tendencytoward the more temperate parts ofPolynesia. At the same time theBrown races flow into the equatorialregions. We thus find the peopleswhom Ave call Papuan tending down-wards toward the twentieth degree ofsouth latitude, Avhile in Tasmania theBlacks are found as far as the fortiethdegree and even beyond. We here revert to the position already

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CHIEF OF FIJI—MIXED TYPE.—Drawn by Barbotin, from a photograph. 726 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND, taken that the distribution of mankindinto these remote insular parts wasDispersion of probably effected while theland area of SouthernAsia reached continuouslyfrom India and the Malay peninsula toAustralia and New Guinea. As far as Blacks by con-tinuous landarea. that while the Brown Polynesians mayhave distributed themselves islandwisethrough the vast domain of RiSeofthePa-their present occupation, °ific,leffc^e , ■*■ l Eastern Blacks it is not likely that the insular.Blacks have done so. It is more prob-able that the latter were occupants of

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1897

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