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The Races of Man 



very short and compact, but afterward grow out to a consid- 

 erable length, forming the compact frizzled mop which is 

 the Papuans' pride and glory. The face is adorned with a 

 beard of the same frizzly nature as the hair of the head. 

 The arms, legs, and breast are also more or less clothed with 

 hair of a similar nature. 



In stature the Papuan decidedly surpasses the Malay, and 

 is perhaps equal, or even superior, to the average of Euro- 

 peans. The legs are long and thin, 

 and the hands and feet larger than 

 in the Malays. The face is some- 

 what elongated, the forehead flat- 

 tish, the brows very prominent ; the 

 nose is large, rather arched and high, 

 the base thick, the nostrils broad, 

 with the aperture hidden, owing to 

 the tip of the nose being elongated ; 

 the mouth is large, the lips thick 

 and pi'otuberant. The face has thus 

 an altogether more European aspect 

 than in the Malay, owing to the 

 large nose ; and the peculiar form of 

 this organ, wit*h the more prominent 

 "brows and the character of the hair 

 on the head, face, and body, enable 

 us at a glance to distinguish the two 

 races. I have observed that most of 

 these characteristic features are as 

 distinctly visible in children of ten or twelve years old as in 

 adults, and the peculiar form of the nose is always shown in 

 the figures which they carve for ornaments to their houses, 

 or as charms to wear round their necks. 



The moral characteristics of the Papuan appear to me to 

 separate him as distinctly from the Malay as do his form and 

 features. He is impulsive and demonstrative in speech and 

 action. His emotions and passions express themselves in 

 shouts and laughter, in yells and frantic leapings. Women 

 and children take their share in every discussion, and seem 

 little alarmed at the sight of strangers and Europeans. 

 Of the intellect of this race it is very difficult to judge, 



PAPUAN CHARM. 



