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small head, measuring, in the capacity of the skull, 

 according to Dr. Morton, from sixty-four to eighty-nine 

 cubic inches ; a diversity in itself sufficient to demon- 

 strate the mixed nature of their origin. The dome is 

 high and rounded, with a low forehead : the face is 

 flat and broad : the nose short, expanded at the wings : 

 the mouth wide, with projecting upper jaws, and teeth 

 resembling Negroes : the skin varying in colour from 

 clear brown to dark clove : the auditory aperture 

 elevated, and consequently with a depressed forehead ; 

 nearly as much so as in the woolly haired type ; but 

 commonly distinguished by prominent ridges of the 

 orbits overhanging the eyes ; and we have seen a light 

 brown so-called Papua girl, from one of the South Sea 

 cannibal islands,* whose forehead had the lengthened 

 form assumed to be peculiar to the American races. 

 In the more typical tribes, the Malay's hair is coarse, 

 lank, and shining, like the Chinese : more aberrant, it 

 becomes undulating and bushy, till in still more adul- 

 terated races, it rises in the high curly mops which 

 attest the intermixture of blood to be not less than half 

 with woolly haired families. This condition, however, 

 most frequently advances the physical improvement of 

 the possessors, and even the intellectual, when there is 

 an additional innervation from a Caucasian source. 

 The beard is often plucked out, generally scanty in the 

 purer hybridism of the Malay composition, nor does it 

 increase to the full honours of a well furnished fringe, 

 up to the ears, unless when there are again other indi- 

 * From Tikienitri, a sandal wood island. 



