to the Ethnological Society of London. Q5 



The editor is Mr Logan, a gentleman of great literary enter- 

 prise and zeal in the cause of science, who resides in a place 

 of all others likely to afford opportunities for the extension 

 of our knowledge respecting the objects of the publication, 

 namely, in the new and thriving British settlement of Singa- 

 pore. Tt is a journal published monthly, and commenced 

 in July 1847. It is intended as a channel for communicating 

 to European readers the past, as well as the contemporaneous 

 discoveries of the Dutch in the Eastern Archipelago, who, in 

 their different settlements publish much that is very little, 

 known in Europe, and likewise accounts from English and 

 American residents in Borneo, Java, Bali, the Philippines, 

 Siam, and other places. The parts already published of this 

 journal contain many valuable papers, among which is a me- 

 moir on the Dyaks of Borneo, translated from the Dutch ; an 

 original paper on the Orang Benua of Johore, a race of wild 

 people, who, in their physical character, resemble the Malays, 

 and another on the Orang Sabimba, on the extremity of the 

 Malayan Peninsula. It seems that the term " Orang," in 

 the Malayan language is common to human beings and to 

 apes. The authors of these papers inform us, that the above- 

 mentioned tribes of human orangs differ greatly among them- 

 selves in physical characters, some having faces which are 

 very narrow in the forehead, and very broad in the plain of the 

 zygomata or of the cheek-bones; while in others the face is very 

 narrow across the cheek-bones, and amazingly wide or broad 

 above the eyes. The same journal contains translations of 

 Temminck's account of the Dutch possessions in the Archi- 

 pelago. In one number there is an interesting paper on the 

 ethnography of Cochin-China, and a curious statement of 

 the annual remittances which Chinese settlers at Singapore 

 send to their families in China. It seems that the Chinese, 

 whom we are accustomed to regard as possessed of few so- 

 cial virtues, have this good quality in a remarkable degree of 

 making provision and personal sacrifices for the benefit of 

 their relations and families. The settlers in Singapore re- 

 mit large sums from the profits of their trade and parsimony 

 to their friends in China, living themselves, year after year, 

 amid great privations. We have been told in other quarters, 



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