In Australia the aborigines were] black, scattered among the sparsely~ cultivated, uninviting regions of that continent" until the white British came and developed the fertile areas by growing wheat, rearing sheep and cattle, and produced the common necessities of civilized life, Incidentally the lower grades cohabited with the blacks, producing _offsprings varying from chocolate to almost fair samples. of mixed blood. Unfortunately, sich descendants have been segregated in special government-controlled areas and practically not allowed to better themselves in the world, however able they may prove to, be.
The same conditions prevail many parts of British Africa where quila a serious race problem has arisen as to the future economic and Political future of a community born Into this world and facing unequal prospect Lastly, we reach Kuanglung and {ts geographical appendage Hongkong, which since its occupation by Great Britain in 1842 has made. wonderful progress. Canton, the City of Rams, {perhaps the earliest port of China at which trading vessels between Cathay and the west, that Is, Persia, Arabia, Mesopotamia and India called exchange commodities before the advent of the whites. Marco Poloand his party (thirteenth century) were perhaps the first white people 1 Undertake the sea route on their return from China to Europe, and they travelled in sailing vessels manned by Chinese and Arabian crews.
We need not therefore be surprised to find among Cantonese not only many ramifications of the original Chinese stock but also descendants derived from the conglomeration of outside races who have visited that Yegion during thousands of years. What after all is the history of a few thousand years in China when science now acknowledges the Peking Man found at Choukoutien (40 miles south of Peiping) to be about 1,000,000 years old and is regarded by Prof. Weldenreich to possess cannibalistic tendencies?
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