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of the follicle, whereby would result wide or narrow spiral tubes and 

 the coarse appearance of the so-called 'peppercorn.' The hair of all 

 Indios is smooth and straightened out, and when it forms curves they 

 are only feeble, and they make the whole outward appearance wavy 

 or, at most, curled. 



But within this wavy or curled condition of the hair there are again 

 differences. In my former communication I called attention to exami- 

 nations which I made upon a large number of islands in the Malay 

 Sea, and in which it was shown that a certain area exists which begins 

 with the Moluccas and extends to the Sunda group, in which the hair 

 shows a strong inclination to form wavy locks, indeed passes grad- 

 ually into crinkled, if not into spiral, rolls. Such hair is found spe- 

 cially in the interior of the islands, where the so-called aboriginal 

 population is purer and where for a long time the name of Alfuros* 

 has been conferred on them. On most points affinity with Negritos 

 or Papuans is not to be recognized. Should such at any time have 

 existed, we are a long way from the period when the direct causes 

 thereof are to be looked for. In this connection the study of the 

 Philippines is rich with instruction. In the limits of the almost insu- 

 lar, isolated Negrito enclave, mixtures between Negritos and Indios 

 very seldom surprise one, and never the transitions that can have 

 arisen in the post-generative time of development. [The island of 

 Negros, on the contrary, is peopled by such crossbreeds. — Teans- 



LATOR.] 



If there are among the bright-colored islanders of the Indian Ocean 

 Alfuros and Malays close together there is nothing against coming 

 upon this contrast in the Philippine population also. Among the 

 more central peoples the tribal differences are so great that almost 

 every explorer stumbles on the question of mixture. There not only 

 the Dayaks and the other Malays obtrude themselves, but also the 

 Chinese and the Mongolian peoples of Farther India. Indeed, many 

 facts are known, chiefly in the language,! the religion, the domestic 

 arts, the agriculture, the pastoral life which remind one of known 

 conditions peculiarly Indian. The results of the ethnologists are so 

 tangled here that one has to be cautious when one or another of them 

 draws conclusions concerning immigrations, because of certain local 

 or territorial specializations. Of course, when a Brahmanic custom 

 occurs anywhere it is right to conclude that it came here from India. 

 But before assuming that the tribe in which such a custom prevails 

 itself comes from Hither or Farther India, the time has to be ascer- 



* On this objectionable namcj see supra. That the term does not 

 connote hair characters cf. A. B. Meyer, Sitzungsb. d. Phil. Hist. Classe der 

 kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissensch. Wien, 1882, Vol. CI, p. 550. — Teanslator. 



t Don T. H. Pardo de Tavera, El sanscrito e la lengua tagalog. Paris, 1887. 



