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or been left there for good and all. These considerations 

 alone suffice to explain certain appearances among the natives, 

 such as brown or yellow skins, with crisp woolly hair, and 

 very full lips, without any more marked characteristics of the 

 Ethiopian race. We noticed one native with woolly hair of a 

 reddish hue, but otherwise of strongly marked Malay features, 

 and on inquiring into his ancestry, were informed in reply 

 that his father was a Portuguese (negro understood), and his 

 mother a native. 



The daughter of Doctor Cook, the Scotchman already men- 

 tioned, of whose union with a native woman of the island 

 there was issue a handsome well-shaped mestiza of a light 

 yellow colour, strongly recalling the stately, elegant quad- 

 roons of New Orleans and St. Domingo, had intermarried 

 with a full-blooded negro of the district of Columbia, U. S., 

 from which resulted a new and entirely dissimilar .admixture. 

 Their children had the face of the mother, with the woolly 

 head of the father. 



At all events it may be laid down with some degree of cer- 

 tainty, that the aboriginal races, especially those inhabiting the 

 Caroline Archipelago, are not of the Pelagian Mongols, nor are 

 they an offshoot of the Mongolian race of the Asiatic continent, 

 as Lesson maintained ; also that Puynipet has not been 

 peopled by the Papuan negroes ; that the woolly crisp hair of 

 so many of its inhabitants is mainly explained by the inti- 

 macy between the black crews of the whalers (it being well- 

 known that a large proportion of the crews of the American 



