S8 VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



than the other islanders ; and in their domestic relations they approach nearer to 

 the usages of civilised society.* The Sunda people, however, who inhabit the 

 mountainous districts of the island, are in all respects a much ruder people. The 

 Chacrelas^ with fair complexion, white hair and feeble eyes, are obviously Albinoes, 

 although their number was formerly very considerable. 



In the great island of Borneo the Malays have possession of the entire sea 

 coast, and the shores of all the navigable rivers. They form, however, but a 

 fractional part of the inhabitants of Borneo ; for the mountainous region of the 

 interior is peopled by the savage Dayacks, and Eidahans, who belong perhaps to 

 another race ; yet they are represented as being fairer than the Malays, and more 

 sanguinary and ferocious. Celebes has long been in possession of two Malay 

 nations, the Bugis and Macassars, who divide the island between them : the latter 

 are reputed for their bravery, which appears to be rather a temporary desperation 

 than cool courage. 



The Malays of the Philippine Archipelago are said to resemble the 

 Sumatrans and Macassars in person, as well as in language and manners. They 

 are described by Zuniga as possessing a good stature, an olive complexion, flat 

 noses, large eye?, and long hair. They call themselves Tageh, or Tagelos, in the 

 island of Luzon, and Bisayas in the central islands. The interior and moun- 

 tainous parts of the larger islands of this group, especially Luzon, Mindanao and 

 Mindoro, are peopled by a very different race, who possess all the characters of 

 Negroes, and are regarded as the aboriginal inhabitants. 



The Malay inhabitants of the Molucca Islands occupy all parts of them 

 excepting the mountainous interior, which is possessed by the Alfoers, a Negro 

 tribe. The women of Amboyna are remarkably handsome, and have more 

 resemblance to the natives of New Zealand than to the neighboring Malay islands. 



Formosa, although but twenty leagues distant from the coast of China, is 

 inhabited by Malays of rude and intractable character. 



The island of Ceylon has a numerous Malay population on its coast, and they 

 are represented as a singularly lawless and desperate people. The same remark is 

 applicable to such of this nation as have established themselves on the eastern 

 coasts of Madagascar, 



Besides the Malay and Negro races, the Indian Archipelago is peopled by 

 great numbers of Chinese and Arabs, among whom the latter enjoyed the almost 

 exclusive privilege of these seas between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, since 



* Raffles, Java, T, p. 57. 



