86 THE PAPUANS: COMPARATIVE NOTES, ETC., 
barrassed manner which shows that there is a mental as well as 
physical difference between them. Their features are more 
regular, though they cannot be said to attain to European out- 
line, they recall the Arab cast of feature. Their skin is less 
dark than that of the people we have hitherto seen, their hair 
not so crisp-~-it is indeed often worn in long ringlets, their 
features are less harsh and hardly at all prognathous. Though 
the forehead is retreating, it is not so narrow, nor are the 
temples so depressed as in the people. we have previously seen.” 
There can, I think, be little doubt that these people are not 
true Papuans, and that at some period, more or less remote, a 
mixture must have taken place either with the early Portugese 
or Dutch settlers, which is even now slowly giving place to the 
preponderating element of the Papuan race. The fact that the 
hair is not seldom worn in long ringlets is, to my mind, a con- 
vincing fact of such admixture of foreign, and presumably 
European blood, as in no case have I ever observed or read of 
true Papuan hair being worn as above mentioned. Its frizzly 
nature at once precludes the possibility of its adaptation to the 
form of a long ringlet. Signor D‘Albertis next reviews the 
natives of Orangerie Bay, who, at the time of his visit in 1872, 
wereremarkably friendly, eager to trade for dim-dim, as they called 
iron, and now call white men, and with whom not the slightest 
unfriendliness occurred. Now, after a lapse of little more than 
a decade, the Orangerie Bay coast is the most dangerous in New 
Guinea. These friendly people have been goaded into hostility 
and reprisal by the harsh treatment of unscrupulous white 
men, who, under the guise of friendship, robbed them and 
outraged their women. 
“1 We are at Orangerie Bay—a crowd of people surrounds 
us, here again we find a mixture of type. The colour of this 
people is lighter than any we have hitherto seen, but all are 
1New Guinea, Vol. 1 p. 221. 
