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across an open door, showing that the house is tabooed, is a 

 more eiFectual guard against robbery than any amount of 

 locks and bars. Tlie houses in Timor are different from 

 those of most of the other islands ; they seem all roof, the 

 thatch overhanging the low walls and reaching the ground, 

 except where it is cut away for an entrance. In some parts 

 of the west end of Timor, and on the little island of Semau, 

 the houses more resemble those of the Hottentots, being egg- 

 shaped, very small, and with a door only about three feet 

 high. These are built on the ground, while those of the 

 eastern districts are raised a few feet on posts. In their ex- 

 citable disposition, loud voices, and fearless demeanor, the 

 Timorese closely resemble the people of New Guinea. 



In the islands west of Timor, as far as Flores and Sandal- 

 wood Island, a very similar race is found, which also extends 

 eastward to Timor-laut, where the true Papuan race begins 

 to appear. The small islands of Savu and Rotti, however, 

 to the west of Timor, are very remarkable in possessing a 

 different and, in some respects, peculiar race. These people 

 are very handsome, with good features, resembling in many 

 characteristics the race produced by the mixture of the Hin- 

 doo or Arab with the Malay. They aVe certainly distinct 

 from the Timorese or Papuan races, and must be classed in 

 the western rather than the eastern ethnological division of 

 the Archipelago. 



The whole of the great island of New Guinea, the Ke and 

 Aru Islands, with Mysol, Sahvatty, and Waigiou, are inhab- 

 ited almost exclusively by the typical Papuans. I found no 

 trace of any other tribes inhabiting the interior of New 

 Guinea, but the coast people are in some places mixed with 

 the browner races of the Moluccas. The same Papuan race 

 seems to extend over the islands east of New Guinea as far 

 as the Fijis. 



There remain to be noticed the black woolly-haired races 

 of the Philippines and the Malay peninsula, the former call- 

 ed " Negritos," and the latter " Semangs." I have never 

 seen these people myself, but from the numerous accurate 

 descriptions of them that have been published, I have had 

 no difficulty in satisfying myself that they have little affini- 

 ty or resemblance to the Papuans, with which they have 



