[101] [See Huxley’s _Man’s Place in Nature_, 8vo, London, 1863; and the article thereon in the _Edinburgh Review_, April, 1863.--EDITOR.] [102] Crawfurd, _On the Negro Race_, etc. (_British Association for the Advancement of Science_, 1852, p. 86.) [103] See the translation of this veritable _Iliad_, by M. H. Fauche. _Râmâyana_, 1857. [104] [We are told in the _Voyages de François Pyrard_, vol. ii, p. 331, Paris, 1615, “that in the province of Sierra Leone there is a species (of orang-outang) so strong limbed and so industrious that, when properly trained and fed, they work like servants; that they generally walk on the two hind feet; that they pound any substances in a mortar; that they go and bring water from the river in small pitchers, which they carry, full, on their heads. But when they arrive at the door, if the pitchers are not soon taken off, they allow them to fall; and when they perceive the pitchers overturned and broken they weep and lament.” In the _Voyages de Guat. Shoutten aux Indes Orientales_, we find nearly the same account of the orang: “they are taken with snares, taught to walk on their hind feet, and to use their fore-feet as hands in performing different operations, as rinsing glasses, carrying drink round to the company, turning a spit,” etc.--EDITOR.] [105] _Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences_, vol. ii. See, also, for the separation of the great toe, the photographs in the _Voyage à la Côte Orientale d’Afrique_, by Captain Guillain. [106] _Odontography_, London, 1840, p. 452. _Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection_, “Osteology,” vol. ii, p. 800. [107] [A character which, as the Cuviers and Owen have pointed out, man shares with the fossil _Anoplotherium_ and its allies, from the Paris gypsum.--EDITOR.] [108] Tiedemann, of Heidelberg, wrote to Knox with reference to the nervous system, that he had great reason to believe that the natives of Australia differed in this matter from Europeans in an extraordinary degree.--Knox, _The Races of Men_, London, 1850, p. 2. [109] “The physical characteristics which distinguish human races, one from the other, are, perhaps, the _one fact in natural history_ which has always most struck the imagination of mankind.... Historians relate, that when Columbus first returned, Europeans could not take their eyes off the plants and unknown animals which he had brought with him; and above all, the Indians, so different from all the races of men they had ever seen.”--Flourens, _Considérations sur l’enseignement de l’Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme_. (_Annales des Sciences Naturelles_, vol. x, p. 357.) This wonder is renewed every day; and I once knew an intelligent negro who had a very unpleasant remembrance of the French provinces, where he had been the object of a very general and indiscreet curiosity.