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characters of these several groups may be summarised as 

 follows : 



1. The xA.NDAMANESE, wlio are sometimes erroneously 

 called Mincopies, inhabit the Andaman Islands in 

 the Bay of Bengal. Their head hair is extremely 

 frizzly (woolly), fine in texture, lustreless and seldom 

 more than two or three inches long, or five inches when 

 untwisted, its colour varies between black, greyish 

 black, and sooty, the last perhaps predominating. Hair 

 only occasionally grows on the face and then but 

 scantil}'. There is little or no hair over the surface of 

 the body. The skin has several shades of colour between 

 bronze or dark copper, sooty, and black, the predomi- 

 nating colour being a dull leaden hue like that of a black- 

 leaded stove. The average stature of 48 males is i'492 m. 

 (4 ft. io| ins.), the extremes being 1-365 m. (4 ft. 5| ins.) 

 and 1-632 m. (5 ft. ^\ ins.). The head is moderately 

 brachycephalic, the average cranial index {i.e. the ratio 

 of the breadth to the length, the length being taken as 

 100) in male skulls is 81, thus the cephalic index of the 

 living would be about 83. The features may be described 

 as : face broad at the cheek-bones ; eyes prominent ; 

 nose much sunken at the root, straight and small ; lips 

 full but not everted; chin small; the jaws do not 

 project. 



2. The Semang live in the central region of the 

 Malay Peninsula, some of them are known under the 

 names of Udai, Pangan, Hami and Seman. The hair 

 of the head is short, universally woolly, and black. 

 Skeat says it is of a brownish black, not a bluish black 

 like that of the Malays, and Martin alludes to a reddish 

 shimmer when light falls on it, but says there is not a 

 brownish shimmer as in the Sakai. Hair is rare and 

 scanty on face and body. Skeat describes the skiji 

 colour as dark chocolate brown approximating in some 

 Kedah Negritos to glossy black, and Martin says the 



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