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speaking, is of an inferior order. They are a race differing 

 much, in some respects, from the Negro and Ked Indian, 

 being of peculiarly active temperaments ; they exhibit con- 

 siderable intellectual capacity, and are an ingenious people. 

 It is extremely probable, from the fact of their being found 

 in islands surrounded by others in the hands of the Ethitfpic 

 race, that they have pushed out the less active variety, and, 

 in short, annihilated them ; and it is likely that they will in 

 turn suffer extinction at the hands of a superior variety, or 

 a variety rendered superior by civilisation. 



The PAPUAN race 

 inhabit the Feejee 

 Islands and the coasts 

 of New Guinea ; they 

 are almost black, with a 

 rough skin and thick 

 woolly hair, which grows 

 much longer than in the 

 Negro, and which they 

 wear curled up so as to 

 form a resisting mass, 

 and no bad protection 

 against the blow from a 

 club (their national wea- 

 pon). Their height is 

 above the average of 

 Europeans. Fish and 

 vams are their chief food. 



The NEGRILLO are nearly black in colour, short in 

 stature, with projecting jaws and thick woolly hair, the 

 nose not so flat as the Negro, nor the lips so thick ; they 

 inhabit the interior of New Guinea and a few islands in its 

 locality, of which they appear to have been the aborigines, 

 the central parts only being occupied by them ; the coasts 

 are inhabited by the Papuan and Malay races, who hav.e 

 driven the Negrillo aborigines from their former abode to 

 the central mountains. 



