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the Timorese, but all of them were considerably weaker than 

 the Europeans. 1 He points out, that though the Timorese are 

 amply provided with food, they lead in a hot climate an inactive 

 life, and become weak from want of bodily exercise, whilst the 

 weakness of the first-named nations arises from want of proper 

 nourishment and a frequent change from extreme physical 

 efforts to an apathetic repose. Freycinet 2 has continued the 

 experiments with the dynamometer, and has arrived at the 

 following results : 



Kilogrammes. 



White Creoles from lie de France lift on the average . 64'4 



Frenchmen in the same locality .... 6O3 



Sandwich Islanders ..... 66'2 and 58-3 



Mozambique Negroes . . . . . 57' 1 



Malgasches . . . . . . 56'9 



Natives of the Carolines ..... 54'2 



New Zealanders, twenty to twenty-five years old . . 51*4 



Timorese and Papuas ..... 40*0 



Australians ...... 45-6 



The results communicated by Buckton 3 differ from the 

 above : 



Mean Strength of the Arms. Mean Strength of the Hips 



12 Tasmanians . , 50'6 kilogr . . myriagr. 



17 Australians . . 50'8 . . 10*2 



56 Timorese . . 58'7 . . 11-6 



17 Frenchmen . . 69-2 . . 15-2 



14 Englishmen . . 71'4 . . 16'3 



With regard to the New Zealanders, it is stated 4 that 

 they can, on the average, lift 367 pounds avoirdupois. 

 Foissac 5 has justly recommended caution in coming to 

 any conclusion from such experiments, as they can only be 

 decisive when performed on individuals of the same nature and 

 the same practice in physical efforts. This is proved by the 

 fact, that the American Hercules, Cantfield, exhibited with the 



1 Peron, " Voy. de decouv. aux terres Australes," ii, p. 417, 2nd edit., 1824. 



2 " Voy. autour du m.," ii, p. 714, 1827. 



3 " Western Australia," p. 91, 1840. 



4 " Journal E. Geogr. Soc.," xiii, p. 92. 



5 Page 41. 



