In the Malay Archipelago. 593 



guished from Malays ; and, on the other hand, I have seen 

 natives of Java who, as far as physiognomy was concerned, 

 would pass very well for Chinese. Then, again, we have the 

 most typical of the Malayan tribes inhabiting a portion of the 

 Asiatic continent itself, together with those great islands 

 which, possessing the same species of large Mammalia with 

 the adjacent parts of the continent, have in all probability 

 formed a connected j^ortion of Asia during the human period. 

 The Negritos are, no doubt, quite a distinct race fi'om the 

 Malay ; but yet, as some of them inhabit a portion of the 

 continent, and others the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Ben- 

 gal, they must be considered to have had in all probability, 

 an Asiatic rather than a Polynesian origin. 



NoAV, turning to the easteni parts of the Archipelago, I 

 find, by comparing my own' observations with those of the 

 most trustworthy travellers and missionaries, that a race iden- 

 tical in all its chief features with the Papuan, is found in all 

 the islands as far east as the Fijis ; beyond this the brown 

 Polynesian race, or some intermediate type, is spread every- 

 where over the Pacific. The descriptions of these latter often 

 agree exactly with the characters of the brown indigenes of 

 Gilolo and Ceram. 



It is to be especially remarked that the brown and the 

 black Polynesian races closely resemble each other. Their 

 features are almost identical, so that portraits of a New Zea- 

 lander or Otaheitan will often serve accurately to represent 

 a Papuan or Timorese, the darker color and more frizzly hair 

 of the latter being the only difierences. They are both tall 

 races. They agree in their love of art and the style of their 

 decorations. They are energetic, demonstrative, joyous, and 

 laughter-loving, and in all these particulars they difier widely 

 from the Malay. 



I believe, therefore, that the numei'ous intermediate forms 

 that occur among the countless islands of the Pacific, are not 

 merely the result of a mixtui'e of these races, but are to some 

 extent, truly intermediate or transitional ; and that the brown 

 and the black, the Papuan, the natives of Gilolo and Ceram, 

 the Fijian, the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands and those 

 of New Zealand, are all varying forms of one great Oceanic 

 or Polynesian race. 



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