MALAY RACE. 



Japanese. 



Dyaks of Borneo, fighting. 



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

 flat nose and black* hair. 



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

 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, the 



Samoan Group, and at Tongataboo. 



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

 usual to represent the New Zealanders with a peculiar 

 cast of countenance, and especially with the nose more 

 prominent than in other Polynesians. It is true the 

 cheeks seemed in general thinner, and the frame not so 

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

 scarcity and inferior quality of the food ; and I once 

 mot with an assemblage of very rugged-looking men. 

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

 optical illusion arising from the peculiar style of tattoo- 

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

 these marks, I saw only the same series of expressions 

 as at Taheiti and Samoa. In stature, however, the New 

 Zealanders were inferior to the inhabitants of those 

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

 exceed Europeans." 



The New Zealanders are ready enough to enter into 

 the European system of civilisation, and adopt the arts 

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

 things, they have been found to possess the failing of 

 extreme covetousness. They are, besides, apt to be 

 morose and discontented, and not very scrupulous in 



adhering to their 



bargains. 



