FEBRUARY 10, 1843.

By the term Negrito is meant those tribes of the Asiatic and Australian

islands, who, in one or more of their physical characters, depart from

the type of the nations in their neighbourhood and approach that of

the African. The word is more comprehensive than Arafura, Andaman, or

Papuan, and less comprehensive than Negro.

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