IN TIMOn, 



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together, they were not shunned by their neighbours, who eten 

 intermarried with them. The offspring of these unions, took 

 sometimes after the one, sometimes after the other parent. 



In looking eagerly at their faces T saw more than their 

 features only ; their presence there was an excerpt out of a 

 long history. In imagination I saw j^ast them down the dim 

 avenues of Time — a far far cry— to their early progenitors, 

 and pictured their weary retreat, full of strange and romantic 

 vicissitudes from a more northern clime till forced ofl' the 

 mainknd by superior might, into exile in this remote isle, 

 Mhere as a surviving remnant amid its central lieights, they 



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FIG. 1 



NATIVES OF BIBI9U5U, 



FIG. 2 



are living united but not incorporated witli the surrounding 

 race aaIiosc pedigree has no link in common with their own. 



What the pedigree of the Timorese is I have not sufficient 

 evidence for forming any decided opinion ; hut that they are 

 a race in which many elements commingle seems certain, 

 saw no one Avith what I can with perfect 

 as "Wack skin" such as «ppn amom? the Aru islanders. 



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truth designate 



Tall, well-proportioned men, with frizzly liair, and of a ncli 

 yellowish brown or of a chocolate colour, I saw in abundance, 

 as well as short, stumpy men, with straight hair on the head 

 and with no lack of beard and moustaches. Mr. Earl * has 

 also noticed the " great differences exhibited by the peoples 

 of the tableland above DiUy. Some of the natives have a 

 dull yellow colour; the parts exposed to the sun arc covered 



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The Xative Races of tlie Indian Arcliirelago/ 1853, p. 179. 



