Vll 



^' tliey are tliriist up araong .Vi'vau and Inuo- Chinese races 

 ^^ from whom they entirely differ. 



" I believe they arc supposed to be the vemnaiit of a 

 ^^ race which once inhabited a large continent;, on ^vhat is 

 '^ the Bay of Bengal^ but which now no longer exists— 

 "•^ Tribes cdosely resscnibliug them exist in the forests o£ 

 '^ Malacca in Sumatra and some other Islands of the 

 '■'■ Malay Archipelago/' 



The Society received^ from His Excellency the Governor 



a very interesting little book intituled " Notes and Que- 



*'■ ries on Anthropology for the Use of Travellers and re- 



" sidents on uncivilized lands^, dravv'n fjy a Committee 



*' appointed by the British Association for the advance- 



'■'■ ment of Science/'' 



The population of Mauritiu;?, as every one knowSj is 



entirely heterogeneous. 



It consists of : 



1. Principally what is by common agTcement called the 

 general population consisting of divers clemeutS;, and to- 

 tally distinct races, stranger in most part, to cacli other. 



2. Of the Indian population comprising races from 

 different parts of the Indiiiu central continent, from the 

 coasts of Malabar and Coromandcl, as ^Madras, Bombay, 

 and therefore diamclrifally opposed to one another. 



3. What may he called the ilcatiugpopulaticn consists of 

 representatives of almost every nation of the globe^ from 

 China, Arabia, llie coasts of the great continent of Africa, 

 Madagascar &c. 



