MALAY RACE. 



Japanese. 



Dyaks of Borneo, fighting. 



The Japanese, Dr. Pickering describes as short, rather stout built men, with dark complexion, rathe 

 flat nose and black hair. 



The people of Madagascar have very dense hair, and exhibit other obvious marks, in their persona 

 appearance, of the unmixed Malayan. 



The Taheitians are found to excel in the culinary art; and they exhibit agility and suppleness of limb. 



Some of the Polynesian Malays have frizzled hair. Dr. Pickering saw specimens at Manua, th 



Samoan Group, and at Tongataboo. 



Of the New Zealanders, Dr. Pickering says : " It i 

 usual to represent the New Zealanders with a peculia 

 cast of countenance, and especially with the nose mor 

 prominent than in other Polynesians. It is true th 

 cheeks seemed in general thinner, and the frame not s< 

 well filled out, owing, perhaps, in some measure, to th 

 scarcity and inferior quality of the food ; and I one 

 met with an assemblage of very rugged-looking men 

 On the whole, it appeared to me, that there was som 

 optical illusion arising from the peculiar style of tattoc 

 ing; for, in the countenances that were mostly free froii 

 these marks,- 1 saw rfHy the same series of expression 

 as at Taheiti and Samoa. In stature, however, the Ne\ 

 Zealanders were inferior to the inhabitants of thos 

 places, and they did not, on the average, appear t 

 exceed Europeans." 



The New Zealanders are ready enough to enter int 

 the European system of civilisation, and adopt the art 

 and fashions of the whites ; but under the new order o 

 things, they have been found to possess the failing o 

 extreme covetousness. They are, besides, apt to b 

 morose and discontented, and not very scrupulous ii 



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Inhabitants of Madagascar. 



adhering to their bargains. 



