37^ REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



They exist on several of the most eastern of 

 these islands simultaneously with the other chief 

 race, and appear in many places very much 

 changed by mixing with it. 



Crozet in " Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud," 

 found these negroes among the inhabitants of the 

 north point of New Zealand, where later travellers 

 have not seen them. 



The west coast of New Holland and Van Die- 

 men's Land are inhabited by real Papuas, by 

 negroes with woolly hair. The other tribes of this 

 continent seem to belong to a peculiar race, who 

 rank in the low^est degree of civilization. Are 

 then the negroes here likewise the aborigines? and 

 have that wretched race yet been able to drive 

 them before them mto the extreme corner of their 

 former country ? Or have they come here later, 

 and by sea ? We do not know them as a sea-faring 

 people. 



We know scarcely any thing of the Haraforas, 

 Alfuriers or Alfoirs, who have been confounded 

 by many wdth the Papuas, from whom they how- 

 ever seem to differ. According to Ley den * they 

 are among the most savage and oldest inhabitants 

 of these islands, and are a peculiar race of men, 

 wdth long hair, and often of a lighter colour than 

 the Malays. 



We do not find any ground in the historians of 



* L. c. p. 217. 



