156 Ml* Cmwfurd on the 



This is the only race, within the bounds described, that has 

 exhibited a considerable intellectual development. It has, 

 for ages, possessed the knowledge of letters, worked the use- 

 ful metals, and domesticated useful animals. Judging by the 

 evidence of language, these ai'ts are of native growth, and 

 not borrowed from strangers. 



All the inhabitants of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, 

 Bali, Lonbok, and Sumbawa, are of this race, as are most of 

 those of the Malayan Peninsula, and of the Philippine 

 Islands. 



East of Celebes and Sumbawa, and lying between these 

 and New Guinea, there is a second division of men of brown 

 complexion and lank hair, constituting, probably, a distinct 

 race. The stature is the same as in the last, but the com- 

 plexion is darker, the features generally coarser, the lips 

 thicker, and the hair often buckling or even frizzling, so as 

 to give them an appearance of being an intermediate race 

 between the lank and woolly haired families. The inha- 

 bitants of Flores, Gilolo, Timur, the Molunas, and several 

 smaller islands, would seem to belong to this race, who, al- 

 though they have made considerable progress in the arts, 

 have never invented the use of letters. The inhabitants of 

 Gueby, an island lying between Gilolo and New Guinea, may 

 be taken as a fair example. M. Freycinet describes them as 

 being of a dark olive complexion, with flat noses, projecting 

 lips, and a facial angle of seventy-seven degrees, vthich is 

 from ten to twelve degrees higher than that of the oriental 

 negro of the same neighbourhood. 



The inhabitants of the Caroline, the Marianne or Ladrone, 

 and Pelew Islands, probably constitute a third subdivision 

 of the brown-complexioned and lank-haii*ed people. The 

 average height of five individuals, as taken by Freycinet* 

 and his companions, was 5 feet 7 inches English. This 

 would make them much taller than the Malay race, but pro- 

 bably the height is over-i-ated, from the average being taken 

 from too small a number of individuals. 



Passing over countries inhabited by negro races, and en- 



* Voyage autoiu- du Monde. Paris, 1820. 



