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seeking for other countries or isles in boats
or by a boat drifting by chance from the
North and at last brought to these islands
all this we may conjecture. But the
various tribes of these islands are evidently
[indecipherable] mixed race, and it is supposed not
of pure Asiatic origin partaking more
or less of the African races. The Malays
themselves seem to be a mixed race.
And may [word crossed out] partly have sprung from
Asia & partly from Africa. Madu
gaskar might then form a connecting
link. Lesson, a French traveller dividing
the inhabitants into three main races.
The Hidu-Causasian to which he reckons
the Malays, next the Mongolian race &
thirdly the mixed race of darker coler
resembling more or less the Caffers & the inhbitants
of Madugaskar. To these are reckoned
the Papus or Papuas, chiefly found in
New Guinea, and then the Tasmanian
and Australian races proper, called some-
times Alfuras or Harafuras. But a mixture
of the Papuas seems to be found with more or
less wooly hair in Australia. However