especially to the prominence of the cheek-bones, but
that the oblique position of the eyes is not perceptible. Yet the
oblique opening of the eye, which forms a good though not an essential
characteristic of the Mongolian nations, is said to be characteristic of
all the Guarani tribes in Brazil. Even in the extreme south, among the
Hiullitches of Patagonia, King saw a great many with obliquely set
eyes. Those writers who separate the Americans as a peculiar race fail
to give distinctive characters, common to them all, which distinguish
them from the Asiatic Mongols. All the tribes have stiff, long hair,
cylindrical in section. The beard and hair of the body is always scanty
or totally absent. The color of the skin varies considerably, as might
be expected in a district of 110 deg. of latitude; it ranges from a light
South European darkness of complexion among the Botocudos, of the
deepest dye among the Aymara, or to copper red in the Sonor tribes. But
no one has tried to draw limits between races on account of these shades
of color, especially as they are of every conceivable gradation.[540:1]

Charles G. Leland says:

"The Tunguse, Mongolians, and a great part of the Turkish race
formed originally, according to all external organic tokens,
as well as the elements of their language, but one people,
closely allied with the Esquimaux, the _Skraeling_, or dwarf of
the Norseman, and the races of the New World. This is the
irrefutable result to which all the more recent inquiries in
anatomy and physiology, as well as comparative philology and
history, have conduced. All the aboriginal Americans have
those distinctive tokens which forcibly recall their neighbors
dwelling on the other side of Behring's Straits. They have the
four-cornered head, high cheek-bones, heavy jaws, large
angular eye-cavities, and a retreating forehead. The skulls of
the oldest Peruvian graves exhibit the same tokens as the
heads of the nomadic tribes of Oregon and California."[540:2]
"It is very certain that thousands of American Indians,
especially those of small stature or of dwarfish tribes, bear
a most extraordinary likeness to Mongols."[540:3]

John D. Baldwin, in his "_Ancient America_," says:

"I find myself more and more inclined to believe that the wild
Indians of the North came originally from _Asia_, where the
race to which they belong se