82 THE PAPUANS: COMPARATIVE NOTES, ETC., 
Asiatic and Arab races, whereas the Papuans have been visited 
only by a few Malay traders, many of whom were little better 
than pirates—not likely to trouble themselves about the culture 
of the tribes they came in contact with. Even these wandering 
Bugis and Malacca men did not venture beyond the Aru 
Islands and the more northern portion of the great island of 
New Guinea. 
Mr. Wallace noticed that the Papuan has more vital energy 
than the Malay; that he hasa greater appreciation of art than his 
taciturn neighbour; but that, on the other hand, he falls far 
below him in the affections and moral sentiments. 
“Tn the treatment of their children they are often violent and 
cruel; and this is due to the greater vigourand energy of mind» 
which produces a harsher discipline, and always, sooner or later, 
leads to the rebellion of the weaker against the stronger—the 
people against their rulers, the slave against his master, or the 
child against his parent.” 
Mr. Wallace’s boundary line includes as Papuans the Alfuros 
of Sahoe and Galela in Gilolo, those of Ceram, of Bouru, of 
Timor, Flores, and Sandlewood Islands, and of Timor Laut 
(Tenimber Islands), the Ké Islanders, those of Aru (although 
these have been mixed with strains of European blood, which 
are traceable, according to that eminent naturalist, to the — 
Portuguese and Dutch, and also with the Chinese and Malays, 
who have for more than two centuries made Dobbo the head- 
quarters of their yearly trading expeditions). Of course, New 
Guinea is the centre of the race, being by far the largest and 
most densely populated island in the region inhabited by the 
Papuans. 
In the above description of the physical and moral aspects of 
the typical Papuan, Mr. Wallace makes the large aquiline nose a 
distinctive racial characteristic, which my own extended observa- 
tions do not corroborate. That it obtains in the north 
and north-west, is indubitably certain. It also occurs«fitfully 
