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teeth with a crown of 22 m.m. length, others also of incisors 

 19 m.m. breadth, the thickness of some of these was not less than 

 11 m.m. 



" On account of the continuous chewing of betel and penang,t 

 the enamel of the teeth is covered with a black crust. In some 

 instances when the mouth was closed the teeth protruded between 

 the lips. 



" I have not only met men with such teeth, but women as well, 

 but more seldom. The teeth of some of the boys promised in 

 time not to be behind in size those of their older countrymen. 



" So far, I have found these large-teethed Melanesians only on 

 the Admiralty Islands (on the south and north-west) and on the 

 Island of Agomes. 



" When I saw these people with protruding teeth around me 

 I was reminded of the Orang Gargasd of the Malayan Peninsula, % 

 and thought involuntarily of the hypotheses, theories, etc., etc., 

 which would have been the result if a piece of skull with these 

 enormous teeth had been found in any recent geological for- 

 mation." 



Since this letter I have sent two fuller reports to Europe 

 about " Macrodontism," one to the Imperial Russian Geographical 

 Society in St. Petersburg ; and a second, with a number of 

 sketches of different sets of teeth of Islanders of Taui and 

 Agomes, to the President of the Anthropological Society of 

 Berlin. Those who interest themselves especially in these ana- 

 tomical specialities I refer to these reports. I will only add 

 here, that my attention being roused by the observation of the 

 large teeth of the Admiralty Islanders, I lost no opportunity to 

 observe the teeth of all the different races of people that I subse- 

 quently during my travels came in contact with. I then con- 

 vinced myself that " Macrodontism " occurs to a certain extent 

 with other races, though I observed nowhere such remarkably 

 big teethed people, and such numerous instances of this peculi- 

 arity, as on the Islands of Taui and Agomes. 



t It is not improbable that other vegetable material, which we do not as j'et know, is 

 also used for chewing by the inhabitants of Taui. 



t In many places of the Malay Peninsula I have heard of the existence of curly-haired 

 people with two protruding teeth, and these Orang Gargassi, as they were called, are sup- 

 posed to live in the mountains between Kedah and Singoro. 



