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.ness of the sacrum. The index also obtained by comparison 

 of the upper and lower limbs with each other is 70 (the latter 

 being taken as lOU). This high index shows an approximation 

 in the proportions of the limbs of the Kubus to those of the 

 anthropoid apes, and indicates that the length of the upper 

 limb is considerably greater in proportion than that of the 

 lower as compared to what obtains in Europeans. In the 

 Negro and the Andamanese, on the other hand, the upper 

 limb is proportionately to the lower shorter than in Europeans. 

 . "Unfortunately the number of Kubu skulls obtained is not 



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A KUBTT 3JAX, AXD WOMAX, SKETCHED IN THE VILLAGE OF SURULANGUN. 



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sufSciently large to justify very definite statements regarding 

 them, though I think sufficient to answer one question which 

 presents itself to us for solution, namely, as to what race the 



Kubus are allied 



Nefrrito 



affinities. The character of the hair, the form of the nose, the 

 various characters of the skull, and the proportion of the limb- 

 bones show that they cannot have any near affinity to the 

 Xegrito race found in various parts of the Indo-Malayan 

 Archipelago, but that they are decidedly Malays, and therefore 

 Mongoloid. The high nasi-malar angle, the high and broad 



