In the Malay Archipelago. 585 



Bugis are the inhabitants of the greater part of Celebes, and 

 there seems to be an allied people in Sumbawa. They speak 

 the Bugis and Macassar languages, with dialects, and have 

 two diiierent native characters in which they write these. 

 They are all Mohammedans. The fourth great race is that 

 of the Tagalas in the Philippine Islands, about whom, as I 

 did not visit those islands, I shall say little. Many of them 

 are now Christians, and sj^eak Spanish as well as their na- 

 tive tongue, the- Tagala. The Moluccau-Malays, who inhabit 

 chiefly Ternate, Tidore, Batchian, and Amboyna, may be held 

 to form a fifth division of semi-civilized Malays. They are 

 all Mohammedans, but they speak a variety of curious lan- 

 guages, which seem compounded of Bugis and Javanese, with 

 the languages of the savage tribes of the Moluccas. 



The savage Malays are the Dyaks of Borneo ; the Battaks 

 and other wild tribes of Sumatra ; the Jakuns of the Malay 

 Peninsula ; the aborigines of Northern Celebes, of the Sula 

 Islands, and of part of Bouru. 



The color of all these varied tribes is a light reddish brown, 

 with more or less of an olive tinge, not varyi»g in any im- 

 portant degree over an extent of country as large as all 

 Southern Europe. The hair is equally constant, being inva- 

 riably black and straight, and of a rather coarse texture, so 

 that any lighter tint, or any wave or curl in it, is an almost 

 certain proof of the admixture of some foreign blood. The 

 face is nearly destitute of beard, and the breast and limbs are 

 free from hair. The stature is tolerably equal, and is always 

 considerably below that of the average European ; the body 

 is robust, the breast well developed, the feet small, thick, and 

 short, the hands small and rather delicate. The face is a lit- 

 tle broad, and inclined to be flat ; the forehead is rather 

 rounded, the brows low, the eyes black and very slightly 

 oblique ; the nose is rather small, not prominent, but straight 

 and well-shaped, the apex a little rounded, the nostrils broad 

 and slightly exposed ; the cheek-bones are rather prominent, 

 the mouth large, the lips broad and well cut, but not protru- 

 ding, the chin round and well formed. 



In this description there seems little to object to on the 

 score of beauty, and yet on the whole the Malays are cer- 

 tainly not handsome. In youth, however, they are often very 



