20 GILOLO. [chap. XXII. 



Papuans, but never among the Malays. Their colour 

 alone is often exactly that of the Malay, or even lighter. 

 Of course there has been intermixture, and there occur 

 occasionally individuals which it is difficult to classify ; 

 but in most cases the large, somewhat aquiline nose, with 

 elongated apex, the tall stature, the waved hair, the bearded 

 face, and hairy body, as well as the less reserved manner 

 and louder voice, unmistakeably proclaim the Papuan 

 type. Here then I had discovered the exact boundary line 

 between the Malay and Papuan races, and at a spot where 

 no other writer had expected it. I was very much pleased 

 at this determination, as it gave me a clue to one of the 

 most difficult problems in Ethnology, and enabled me in 

 many other places to separate the two races, and to unravel 

 their intermixtures. 



On my return from Waigiou in 1860, I stayed some 

 days on the southern extremity of Gilolo; but, beyond 

 seeing something more of its structure and general 

 character, obtained very little additional information. It 

 is only in the northern peninsula that there are any indi- 

 genes, the whole of the rest of the island, with Batchian 

 and the other islands westward, being exclusively in- 

 habited by Malay tribes, allied to those of Ternate and 

 Tidore. This would seem to indicate that the Alfuros 

 were a comparatively recent immigration, and that they 

 had come from the north or eastj perhaps from some of the 



