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The complexions of the women are brunette, of lighter or deeper shade. The wild 

 Kalee women are naturally good-looking, and are sought after by the Chinese of 

 the eastern side of the island for wives ; hut the priest said it was common for 

 them, after some years, to return to the wilds and pick up savage lords. In 

 consequence of these intermarriages, Kalee features and type are seen to prevail 

 amongst the ordinary Chinese population throughout Formosa; giving to the 

 Formosan Chinese almost as distinct characteristics as a native of Amoy compared 

 with a Cantonese. Many faces among the male Kalees reminded the author of the 

 Tagals of Lucon. They wear turbans and loin-cloths of black material, and short 

 jackets of yellow cloth. Their spear-handles are of bamboo, and their sword- 

 scabbards painted red. The men are not tatooed, but the women are so across the 

 back of the hand in lines. There is little room for doubting that the Kalee tribe 

 are ofTagal origin; but there are other tribes inhabiting the moimtains of Formosa 

 of quite distinct race, the wildest of them being of dwarfed stature, and probably 

 allied to the Negritos of the Andaman Islands; the author, however, as yet had 

 not had an opportunity of seeing them. 



On the Negro-European Dialects of Surinam and Curasao. By E. B. Ttxor. 



The original West African languages of the Negro slaves imported into America 

 and the West Indies, have been almost totally replaced by broken-down dialects 

 of the languages of their European masters. Two of these dialects, the Negro- 

 English of Surinani and the IS egro-Spanish of Curacao, were examined by Mr. 

 Tylor, with the view of testing, by a set of facts, the whole history of which 

 happens to be known to us, the use and value of philology as an aid to ethnology. 

 The Spaniards were superseded as the dominant class in the island of Curacao by 

 the Dutch. The effect of this change has been, not to supersede a broken-down 

 Spanish dialect by a Dutch one, but merely to introduce a number of Dutch words 

 into the Negro language, which still preserves its Spanish character. Thus, too, 

 the Negro-English of Surinani did not lose its English character by the cession of 

 the colony to the Dutch, but merely took in a number of Dutch words, the cha- 

 racter of the language remaining English. Among the examples of the Surinani 

 dialect, taken from the New Testament, translated by the Moravian missionaries, 

 were the following : — " Dem hiti netti na mi watra ; bikasi dem dejisiman" " Cast- 

 ing a net into the sea, for they were fishers." " We ihriwan boon boom de meki 

 boen vroektoe," "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.'' In this 

 latter example, ibritcan is English "everyone," and meki is "make," but boen, 

 "good," is Spanish bueno, while boo?n, "tree," und vroektoe "fruit," are Dutch. It 

 woidd seem at first sight that the fact of a West African Negro population speaking 

 a language which must be classed as English, is evidence that language is not 

 necessarily a proof of race at all. Mr. Tylor, however, called attention to the 

 fact that, according to all experience, the descendants of the originally imported 

 Negroes must have become mixed with English blood ; and the same with the 

 Negroes who adopted the language of their Spanish masters in Curacao. He con- 

 sidered the quaint and rude dialects into which English and Spanish have been 

 reduced in the mouths of the Negro slaves as good illustrations of a principle of 

 much moment in the classification of races by language, namely, that though two 

 peoples speaking kindred languages may be widely different in their descent, and 

 therefore in their race as a whole, yet their use of languages - derived from the 

 same source is proof, at any rate, that men of the same race have been dominant 

 among both peoples to a sufficient extent to impress their language upon them. 

 And it is to be inferred from experience that such a state of things is always 

 accompanied by the formation of a half-breed race, so that, at least to the extent of 

 this minimum of mixture in blood, common language is a definite proof of common 

 ancestry. 



On tJie Origin of the Hungarians. By M. Vamb£kt. 

 The author said the Hungarians belonged to the Altaic race, but there were many 

 subdivisions which differed essentially ; and it was important to know whether the 

 Hungarians were of Finnish or of Turco-Tartar origin. To investigate such a ques- 



