CHAP. XL.] IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 441 



Batchian, and Amboyna, may be held to form a fifth 

 division of semi-civilized Malays. They are all Maho- 

 metans, but they speak a variety of curious languages, 

 which seem compounded of Bugis and Javanese, with the 

 languages of the savage tribes of the Moluccas. 



The savage Malays are the Dyaks of Borneo; the 

 Battaks and other wild tribes of Sumatra ; the Jakuns of 

 the Malay Peninsula ; the aborigines of Northern Celebes, 

 of the Sula island, and of part of Bouru. 



The colour of all these varied tribes is a light reddish 

 brown, with more or less of an olive tinge, not varying in 

 any important degree over an extent of country as large as 

 all Southern Europe. The hair is equally constant, being 

 invariably black and straight, and of a rather coarse tex- 

 ture, so that any lighter tint, or any wave or curl in it, 

 ivS an almost certain proof of the admixture of some foreign 

 blood. The face is nearly destitute of beard, and the 

 breast and limbs are free from hair. The stature is 

 tolerably equal, and is always considerably below that of 

 the average European ; the body is robust, the breast well 

 developed, the feet small, thick, and short, the hands small 

 and rather delicate. The face is a little broad, and in- 

 clined to be flat ; the forehead is rather rounded, the brows 

 low, the eyes black and very slightly oblique ; the nose is 

 rather small, not prominent, but straight and well-shaped, 

 the apex a little rounded, the nostrils broad and slightly 



