BY WILLIAM E. ARMITT, F.L.8., F.R.G.S. 65 
world and the gloomiest. I was there a fortnight and never 
saw one of them laugh. . . . . . Some people from the 
interior came to this village, and they appeared to me to differ 
materially from the Ramoi men. They were not so dark, were 
of smaller size, and more prognathous. Their hair was divided 
into numbers of little tufts and rolled on bits of bamboo.” 
Speaking of the Arfaks of Audai, he says:—‘‘?They are a 
fine race, tall of stature, and strong, and physically they seem 
superior to the inhabitants of the coast. They offer more 
homogeneity of type, and may be considered as the type of the 
mountain tribes. Their hair is exceedingly thick, black, and 
woolly, but so covered with grease that its real colour and 
nature is hidden. I occasionally met with men who had thick, 
though not long, beards, and their bodies covered all over with 
hair. The body hair has a reddish tint. Their skin is very 
dark, almost black, without being actually so. The forehead 
is, In general, narrow and somewhat retreating. The cheek 
bones are very high, and projecting beyond the eye orbits. The 
nose is almost always aquiline; the lips are well formed, but 
with a tendency to project; the chin is small and pointed. The 
women have rounder faces, less retreating foreheads, and less 
depressed temples, for which reasons the cheek bones do not 
appear so prominent as in the men.” 
At Battulei and Comul, at the extreme north point of Aru, 
D:Albertis found ‘a population of a special character which 
seems to be a distinct branch of the so-called Papuan family.’’? 
He, however, does not include the chiefs, who are of Malay 
extraction. These people differ from any of the Papuans the 
Italian explorer had met, and are described thus:—“ ?The 
men’s figures are not only slight, but elegant and well pro- 
portioned in every limb, and they have an open and unem- 
1Tb. Vol. 1 p. 217. 
?New Guinea, Vol. 1 p. 219. 
’New Guinea, Vol. 1 p. 220. 
