If the nations of the Malay family are to be referred to one of the three greater divisions, they must be regarded as a sub-variety either of the Mongol or the Negro stock. Proximity of geographical position, with other circumstances, would lead us to prefer the former. The Papuans, however, who inhabit New Guinea and the adjacent islands to the eastward, exhibit many of the characteristics of the Negro type, and the native race of Australia is of the Papuan or Austral-Negro family. There is, in truth, throughout the Australian and Polynesian division of the globe, a well-marked distinction between the brown and the black races. The former, who belong to the true Malay family, comprehend, with the Malays proper (that is, the bulk of the inhabitants of the Malay peninsula and the adjacent islands), the people of Madagascar; also the New Zealanders, and the inhabitants of most of the smaller Polynesian archipelagoes, from the Sandwich Islands on the north to the Society, Navigators, and Friendly groups in the south. The Austral-Negro or Papuan division, on the other hand, includes the native tribes of the Australian continent and the adjacent island of Tasmania (the latter now all but extinct), with the inhabitants of New Guinea, the Louisiade archipelago, New Britain, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and the Fiji Islands. The American, or red variety of mankind, has its home in the two great continents which are together known as the New World. Its distinguishing attributes are a reddish or copper-colored skin, with long, coarse, black hair (which is never crisped like that of the Negro, or curled, as that of the white often is), and scanty beard. The cheek-bones are prominent, but more arched and rounded than those of the Mongol, without being so angular, or projecting at the sides; the orbit generally deep, and the outer angle slightly elevated. In point of temperament, the Indian (as the native inhabitant of the American wilderness is termed) is cold and phlegmatic to an unusual degree, and he manifests an extraordinary insensibility to bodily pain. His bodily senses--of sight, hearing, and smell--are remarkably acute. These, as well as many other attributes of the Indian race, have probably resulted from the conditions of the hunter’s life, pursued through many generations.