500 



New Guinea. 



of Sir Charles Lyell's " Antiquity of Man," is chiefly founded 

 on a sketch of this very village of Dorey; but the extreme 

 regularity of the structures there depicted has no place in the 

 original, any more than it probably had in the actual lake- 

 villages. 



The people who inhabit these miserable huts are very simi- 

 lar to the Ke and Aru islanders, and many of them ai-e very 

 handsome, being tall and well-made, with well-cut features and 



PAPUAN, NEW GUINEA. 



large aquiline noses. Their color is a deep brown, often ap- 

 proaching closely to black, and the fine mop-like heads of 

 frizzly hair appear to be more common than elsewhere, and 

 are considered a great ornament, a long six-pronged bamboo 

 fork being kept stuck in them to serve the purpose of a comb ; 

 and this is assiduously used at idle moments to keep the dense- 

 ly growing mass from becoming matted and tangled. The 

 majority have short woolly hair, which does not seem capable 

 of an equally luxuriant development. A growth of hair some- 



