ETHYL

Madagascar, and into W. Indies, southern United States, and S. America. They are po ibly not an indigenous African population, but conquerors of the Negritos (Span. ‘little negroes’) or pygmies, and made their entry into Africa through Arabia. Pygmies are believed to have occupied the whole equatorial region before the subsidence of the In do African continent cut them into two divisions, that of Africa and that of the Malay peninsula. The Red Indian race is confined to America, and is described under InpDIANs, AMERICAN. The Malayan race inhabits the Malayan peninsula and ‘Malaysia’ (the E ‘| Indies). Believed until lately to be Mongol i ans, they are now considered a separate race of southern conquerors. It is suggested that they belonged to the same race as the Polynesians, from whom they were separated at the subsidence of the Indian continent. Monogolians probably made their early home on the tableland of Tibet, from which they soon spread over Mongolia, China, and Siberia, and ultimately over Central Asia, parts of Armenia, Caucasia, Irania, Ru ia, Finland and Lapland, Manchuria, Japan, Siam, Formosa, Korea, parts of Hungary and Balkan peninsula, Madagascar, and the Philippines. To the In do European (formerly called Caucasian, and lately Indo-Germanic) race belong most of the peoples of India and Europe. In historical times this race has colonized a large proportion of America and much of Africa and Australia. The Indo-European tongue comprises Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Romance tongues, Persian, Slavonic, Teutonic, Celtic, etc. Arabia or N. Africa is a igned as the home of the Semitic race; thence it ‘spread over Syria and Palestine. See ANTHROPOLOGY.