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bLick native of the Dravirian type^ with curled hair, approaching much to 

 the features of the IsTegro. 



Then comes a Hindoo of the same region, of dark-browu complexion, yet 

 whose lanky hair and oval features prove a further removal from the Negro 

 type, and nearer to the Indo-European, 



JSText is a Hindoo of Coorg, in the same region, who, having been the son 

 of a chief, has a light brown complexion, sharp features, and small lips and 

 chin, showing a more northern derivation than the two latter, and in whose 

 countenance none of the Negro characteristics are to be observed. 



These drawings, as far as they go, give illustrations of the graduations of 

 the human race, from the coal black Negro to the olive-colored, and then 

 the white Arian, Caucasian, or European. Now go to the most easterly 

 range of the Negro. Here are two drawings of Papuans, natives of New 

 Guinea. While exliibiting cerebral contours equally as low as those of 

 the most westerly range, in their prognathous jaws, retreating foreheads, 

 oblong faces, and thick lips, they are of lighter complexion, viz., dark brown, 

 with spiral hair, a feature which distinguishes them from the African type. 



Next we have an albino of the same race — mistaken by the credulous for 

 a European — but whose red weak eyes, scaly skin, protruding lips and jaws, 

 small brow, and long thick-jointed fingers, prove him to have had his origin 

 in Papuanesia. 



Now we come to the Bajow or Oranglaut, of the Indian Archipelago. 

 Campar, evidently allied to the Mongolian division, but the Negro features in 

 him are slightly apparent, while in his sisters Puteh and Smih (bobh albinos) 

 the Mongolian features are predominant. This tribe is evidently derived from 

 the Mergui Archipelago, and remotely from the valleys of the Irrawaddy and 

 Bahrumputra. They are strong and muscular, also piratical and regardless of 

 shedding blood. These I would point out as being most likely the descendants 

 of the first intruders on the Negro Equatorial area. 



Next are a man, woman, and child of the Seletar tribe of Johore — 

 river nomads — whose closer contact with the present natives of the Malay 

 Peninsula graduates them further into the Mongolian type, as shown by their 

 square faces, small oblique eyes, and brown yellow complexion. 



The next in order may be classed together, all having Mongolian or 

 Thibetan features, viz., a Jakun of Johore, Muka Kunings of Battam (mother 

 and son), Sabimba of Johore (man, boy, woman, and child), Mintera of 

 Salangore (man and woman). All these are wild tribes, living solely in the 

 dense forests of the interior of the islands and peninsula of Malacca, evidently 

 deriving their origin in archaic times from the valleys of the Menan and 

 Irrawaddy. These are now popularly known as the primitive inhabitants, but 

 the ethnological researches already quoted prove them to have been pi-eceded 



