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was found to be only 4 feet 9 inches liigh. This indi- 

 vidual was brought from the mountains of Queda. A lad 

 sent to myself, while in the administration of Singapore, by 

 the Raja of Kalanten, a Malay state on the east coast of the 

 peninsula, agreed in complexion, hair, and features, with the 

 description now given. 



The great islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes, 

 are Vv'ithout any negro race of inhabitants ; nor is there any re- 

 cord or tradition of them ever having existed. In some islands 

 of the Philippine group, however, they are found in consider- 

 able numbers, and are well known to the Spaniards under the 

 name oi Negritos. Zunigas' description of them is, that they 

 are more of a copper colour than the true African negro, that 

 tiiey have flat noses, soft hair, and are of very-low stature. 

 The total number of them subject to the Spanish rule, in the 

 principal island of Lu9on, is about 3000. 



From all those accounts, I am disposed to conclude, that 

 the negroes of the Andaman Islands, probably those of the 

 Nicobars, those of the Malayan Peninsula, and of the Phi- 

 lippine Islands, are all of the same race, which would include 

 all the negroes north of the equator. But it must be admit- 

 ted that this conclusion may not be warranted by a better 

 knowledge than we now possess. 



South of the equator, and still within the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, we find at least two races of negroes on New Guinea 

 and the islets adjacent to it. One of these has the Negro 

 features, but not in an exaggerated form ; and the hair, in- 

 stead of growing in woolly tufts, is frizzled, long, and bushy, 

 so a-s to be easily dressed out into the huge mop-like form, 

 of which good representations will be found in the plates an- 

 nexed to the voyages of the recent French circumnavigators. 

 The stature appears to be about the ordinary one of the Ma- 

 layan race. 



Sir Stamford Raffles brought to England a lad of ten years 

 of ago, a native of New Guinea, of the woolly-haii'ed i-ace, of 

 which there is a good representation in the second volume of 

 his History of Java. The late Sir Everai'd Home described 

 tliis individual as follows: — " The Papuan differs from the 

 Afi-ican negro in the following particulars : His skin is of a 



