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Natives. 



Quadrupeds. 



MALAYAN ISLES. 



I AM not qualified to give any account of the natives of thefe 

 Appennines of 'Java. The general defcription is, that their faces 

 are flat, their cheeks broad, their hair Ihort and black, their eye- 

 brows lart^e, their eyes very fmail. They boaft that they are de- 

 fended from the Cbinefe ; if true, we may account for the pro- 

 bability of that nation migrating to this ifland; they may have 

 been from the beginning in the conftant habit of frequenting 

 thc coafts. The manners of the mountaneers are faid to be 

 fierce and barbarous, and their rites idolatrous. The inhabitants 

 of the cities and coafts are Mahometans. Reprefentations of the 

 perfons of the Javamfe in different chara6lers are given by Mr. 

 Nietibojf', in his travels*, in Linfchotten\\ and in the very curious 

 old book of voyages already cited, are numbers of prints, begin- 

 ning at p. ay, and continued to p. 37 ; and at p. 36 is given the 

 manner of a dance, or rather a mimical reprefentation, exatflly 

 like the elegant one at p. 24.8, plate 16, 17, of the firft volume of 

 Captain Cook's laft voyage. 



LeBrun\ reprefents a very curious figure of one of the favage 

 natives of the fouthern coaft : he leemed a fine made man, 

 alinoft black ; his head covered with thick frizzled hair, lips 

 large, nofe deprefTed, body naked, except a cloth round his 

 wal^e; on the right arm and left leg an ivory ring; his wea- 

 pons were a ftrong bow, feveral lances headed with fomething 

 fharp, and one with a bearded bone, perhaps that of fome ray.. 

 The painter, hqv/ever, has certainly got hold of a native of the 

 Papua iflanus, and not of the fouth of Java. 



In enumerating the quadrupeds of this ifland, I fliall omit all 



• P- P- 315- 319- ■\ P- 20. X Vol. ii. tab. 197. 



which 



