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such that in most instances only faint traces of the 

 peculiar type have been left." Meyer agrees with van 

 Musschenbroek in regarding the Kalangs as a remnant 

 of the aborigines of Java, possibly allied to the other 



Figs. 6, 7. — Malayo-Papu 



Negrito peoples of the Archipelago, and " occupying Java 

 before it was peopled by the Malays." Ardi had come 

 from the eastern parts of the island, where a few still 

 linger no longer as a distinct tribe, but dispersed, like 

 Ardi himself, amongst the general population. Hence 



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Negrito in a mourning head-dress, from a photograph 

 sent to Europe by Mr. Man, and originally published in 

 the Aiithmpologkal Journal, vol. vii. (1S77) p. 416. It 

 presents a singular resemblance to an Australian woman 

 (Fig. 3) also in mourning, reproduced in the same place 



A Motu Youth. 



from a picture in Angus' "South Australia Illustrated" 

 (plate 51). 



The Negrito and Hottentot hair is usually described as 

 growing in separate woolly tufts, or, as Topinard puts it, 

 " in little peppercorn masses, separated by bald spaces." 

 In his " Genealogical Classification of the Human 



Fig. S.— MelaneJan Type. Vanikc.ro Chief. 



the reader will doubtless be glad to have this authentic 

 specimen of perhaps the very lowest type of mankind, 

 now all but extinct. 



Fic. xo.— Maori Type. 



Races and Languages " Venzel Krizhek revives the well- 

 known classification of Friedrich Miiller which makes this 

 feature the basis of one of the main divisions of mankind, 

 including the Hottentots, Papuans, and Negritos. Yet 

 the phenomenon has absolutely no existence in nature. 



Our next illustration (Fig. 2) is that of an Andaman ese But such is the tenacity of errors of this sort that 



