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their wild uncontrolletl life in the jungle, and ihev ean 

 always obtain tohaceo, whilst spirits are strictly forhidden 

 to them. Nearly all on the Great Andaman have heen 

 tamed and made friendly, hut the Jdrawds still remain 

 fierce, dangerous, and intractable ; they seem to be some- 

 what different in race, for though their appearance is the 

 same as that of the friendly tribes, their language is not. 



The early rejjorts of the Aborigines (9th century) made 

 them hideous, with enormous hands and feet, I cubit long, 

 and a writer in the "Sunday Magazine" also states that 

 they are ugly, but 1 cannot say that this statement is 

 correct, at all events with reference to the majority ; there 

 are always ugly people belonging to all races, and I 

 certainly came across some who were quite good-looking, 

 even according to European ideas, and well made, notably 

 a man who was known as ' His Excellency.' Amongst 

 the women, however, I did not find good looks ; the hands 

 and feet of all are small and neat, but then the average height 

 of the men is only 4 ft. lO in., and that of the women 3}^ 

 inches less. The origin of the race is unknown, but it is 

 supposed to be closely allied to the Nigritos of the 

 Philippines, and Professor Flower's opinion of them is 

 that they are the least modified representatives of primitive 

 inhabitants of a large portion of the earth, and verging on 

 extinction. Whatever may be their origin, they are an 

 unmixed race, for the Crania resemble each other, and 

 they have not the projecting heel of the negro ; their lips 

 do not protrude excessively, and besides being intensely 

 black, blacker than any negro, they have no smell, except 

 what may arise from turtle-oil, or pig-fat mixed with 

 ochre (koyob) with which at times they smear themselves. 

 On gala days, and when they put on extra ornaments, 

 they smear themselves with chalk. 



The wool on the head does not grow as a mass, but in 

 spiral tufts, and it is shaved to shape by the women with 

 a piece of glass ; all shave away from the forehead, but 



