Having thus given a faithful description of the aerial excursions of Don
Quixote, we take pleasure in furnishing to the reading public some very interesting
information, all based upon authentic documents, about the scientific career of
this marvel of erudition. He is perfectly familiar, as we have already partly
demonstrated, with the topographical geography of every explored and un-
explored, and of every discovered and undiscovered country ; he knows all about
their rivers and mountains, and can indicate the precise number of the popula-
tion and the number of square miles they contain, even of those islands where
no census is ever taken; he is perfect master of the sciences of zoology and
geology ; he is more especially versed in the very difficult branch of zoological
science of a negative order j he has discovered in his laborious explorations what
quadrupeds and birds are not found in certain countries. As an anthropologist he
is a most wonderful phenomenon ; he has invented an extremely curious classifi-
cation of the negroes, which is no less scientific than his more recent attempt in
that line, of which he only publishes a few disjecta membra. He divides the
Oceanian races into Black blacks (sic) or Negritoes, and into Yellow Blacks (sic) of
which the Indonesians or some other fancy branch race — for he does not clearly
state it, seem to form a part. He imagines that classifications, which are all
more or less conventional, are the very essence of science. 1 He knows that his
soul has been in existence long before he was born, and he perfectly remembers
that some ten thousand or twenty thousand years ago the Malays came from
Asia, and are the brothers of the Mongolians and the Chinese ; and though the
Malay language has no affinity whatever with the Mongolian, and in most
ancient time the Malays formed a well-organised nation on Sumatra, yet he
considers these facts of no consequence, for his memory cannot deceive him. 