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peculiar race. These people are very handsome, with 

 good featiires, resembling in many characteristics the 

 race produced by the mixture of the Hindoo or Arab 

 with the Malay. They are certainly distinct from the 

 Timorese or Papuan races, and must be classed in the 

 western rather than the eastern ethnological division of 

 the Archipelago. 



The whole of the great island of New Guinea, the Ke 

 and Aru Islands, with Mysol, Salwatty, and Waigiou, are 

 inhabited almost exclusively by the typical Papuans. I 

 found no trace of any other tribes inhabiting the in- 

 terior of New Guinea, but the coast people are in some 

 places mixed with the browner races of the Moluccas. 

 The same Papuan race seems to extend over the islands 

 east of New Guinea as far as the Fijis. 



There remain to be noticed the black woolly-haired 

 races of the Philippines and the Malay peninsula, the 

 former called " Negritos," and the latter " Semangs." 1 

 have never seen these people myself, but from the nu- 

 meroiis accurate descriptions of them that have been 

 published, I have had no difficulty in satisfying myself 

 that they have little affinity or resemblance to the Papuans, 

 with which they have been hitherto associated. In most 

 important characters they differ more from the Papuan 

 than they do from the Malay. They are dwarfs in stature, 

 only averaging four feet six inches to four feet eight 



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