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by tlie Negro. Their features being also closely Tliibeto-Chinese, their more 

 northerly origin is corroborated. Some of these tribes live in savage freedom 

 within 30'milesof the settlements of Europeans, such as Malacca and Singapore, 

 totally unaffected in habits or manners by the civilisation so nearly bi'ought 

 to them for a period of three and a half centuries — that is, since the advent of 

 the Portuguese in the year 1511. 



Next is a Jawee Pakan of Malacca, a man of mixed i-ace, evidently 

 Malayo-Dutch. Thus, in these portraits the graduations or links from the 

 Papuan to the Indo-European are exhibited. 



As examples of the pure Mongolian races that now occixpy the Indian 

 Ai-chipelago, the following are exhibited: — 1st. Two women and a child of the 

 Silat, in the Singapore Straits, claiming to be Malays ; 2nd. A man, woman, 

 and child of Waju. in Celebes. These claim to be Bugis, and belong to the 

 most enterprising race in the equatorial East. 



Last is a Mug of Burmah, who, being nearer to Thibet than any yet 

 shown, has features more closely approximating to the natives of the eastern 

 Himalayan spurs than any other. It will be observed by those acquainted with 

 the images of the Thibetan Buddha, how closely similar the features of the 

 face are to those ; the straight nose, round face, and rectangular eyebrows of 

 those people presenting a heau ideal of beauty, grace, and symmetry in these 

 regions of the earth. This portrait gives the link between the Thibet and 

 Indonesian races. (Copies of these drawings are necessarily excluded from 

 this work.) 



Thus, while the language of these tiibes or nations have been shown in the 

 preceding part of this paper to graduate one into the other, so have their 

 physical forms, colors, and complexions been proved (imperfectly, it must be 

 admitted, for want of more drawings) also thus to graduate. Now to the 

 question before its — which of these approach nearest to the general type of the 

 Maori? On this point Dr. Thompson, in his " Story of New Zealand" (a very 

 competent authority) describes "the Maori males as averaging 5ft. 6;|in. in 

 height and 10 stones (without clothes) in weight, their body being longer than 

 that of an Englishman, while their legs are shorter. The head hair is 

 abundant, and generally black, but some have a I'usty red tinge. A few have 

 lank head hair, a few frizzly, but the majority have dark hair with a slight 

 wave in it. Their beard and whiskei'S are occasionally considerable, but on 

 the trunk it is scanty ; few become bald, although many are grey ; the skin is 

 olive-brown, with many shades, some so fair that blushes in their cheeks can 

 be seen, while others are so dark that the tattoo mai'ks can scarcely be detected ; 

 the mouth is coarse, the face broad, and the upper lip long, the forehead high, 

 narrow, and retreating. They are a mixed race, and may be divided into brown, 

 reddish, and black. In different tribes the numbers of each coinplexion vaiy." 



