590 The Races of Man 



eyebrows. The Malay is bashful, cold, undemonstrative, and 

 quiet ; the Papuan is bold, imjoetuous, excitable, and noisy. 

 The former is grave and seldom laughs ; the latter is joyous 

 and laughter-loving — the one conceals his emotions, the other 

 displays them. 



Having thus described in some detail the great physical, 

 intellectual, and moral differences between the Malays and 

 Papuans, we have to consider the inhabitants of the numer- 

 ous islands which do not agree very closely with either of 

 these races. The islands of Obi, Batchian, and the three 

 southern peninsulas of Gilolo, possess no true indigenous 

 population ; but the northern peninsula is inhabited by a na- 

 tive race, the so-called Alfuros of Sahoe and Galela. These 

 people are quite distinct from the Malays, and almost equal- 

 ly so from the Papuans. They are tall and well-made, with 

 Papuan features, and curly hair ; they are bearded and hairy- 

 limbed, but quite as light in color as the Malays. They are 

 an industrious and enterprising race, cultivating rice and 

 vegetables, and indefatigable in their search after game, fish, 

 tripang, pearls, and tortoise-shell. 



In the great island of Ceram there is also an indigenous 

 race very similar to that of Northern Gilolo. Bouru seems 

 to contain two distinct races — a shorter, round-faced people, 

 with a Malay physiognomy, who may probably have come 

 from Celebes by way of the Sula Islands ; and a taller, 

 bearded race, resembling that of Ceram. 



Far south of the Moluccas lies the island of Timor, inhab- 

 ited by tribes much nearer to the true Papuan than those of 

 the Moluccas. 



The Timorese of the interior are dusky brown or blackish, 

 Avith bushy, frizzled hair, and the long Papuan nose. They 

 are of medium height, and rather slender figures. The uni- 

 versal dress is a long cloth twisted round the waist, the 

 fringed ends of which hang below the knee. The people 

 are said to be great thieves, and the tribes are always at 

 war with each other, but they are not very courageous or 

 bloodthirsty. The custom of " tabu," called here "pomali," 

 is very general, fruit trees, houses, crops, and property of all 

 kinds being protected from depredation by this ceremony, 

 the reverence for which is very great. A palm branch stuck 



