80 THE PAPUANS: COMPARATIVE NOTES, ETC., 
bearded face and hairy body, as well as the less reserved manner 
and louder voice, unmistakeably proclaim the Papuan type. 
Here then I discovered the exact boundary line between the 
Malay and Papuan races, and at a spot where no other writer 
had expected it.” 
Subsequently Mr. Wallace visited the Ké Islands and was 
struck with the differences existing between the Malay and 
Papuan races, whose representatives he then saw for the first 
time. 
He says :—‘‘ !The sooty blackness of the skin, the mop-like 
head of frizzly hair, and, most important of all, the marked, 
form of countenance of quite a different type from that of the 
Malay, are what we cannot believe to result from mere climatal 
or other modifying influences on one and the same race. 
The Papuan has a face which, we may say, is compressed and 
projecting. The brows are protuberant and overhanging, 
the mouth large and prominent, while the nose is very large, 
the apex elongated downwards, the ridge thick, and the nostrils 
large. It is an obtrusive and remarkable feature in the coun- 
tenance. The twisted beard and frizzly hair complete this 
remarkable contrast.” 
He was struck by the wild and boisterous conduct of these 
Ké men, so different from the taciturn demeanour of the 
Malays. Of the Aru Islanders Mr. Wallace remarks :— 
“2The natives here, even those who seem to be of pure Papuan 
race, were much more reserved than those of Ké.” This he 
ascribes to having seen them only among strangers and in 
small parties; but, even under these circumstances, the typical 
characteristics could not be long repressed. Boys walked along 
singing or talking aloud to themselves quite a (negro 
characteristic). 
1Ib. pp. 416-17. 
2Malay Archipelago, 1872; p. 585 et seq 
