92 VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



prominent : the eye is smaller than in the Australians, and the pupil is of a mixed 

 greenish and brownish tint : the nose is excessively flat, the alae being thin and 

 depressed above, but below^ disgustingly open, thus corresponding in lateral extent 

 with the wide mouth ; the latter projects like a snout, with thick lips of a bright 

 red color ; and the chin is almost square, with a very scanty beard. Their lower 

 extremities are thin, long and disproportioned, in which respect they resemble the 

 Australians. 



The more remarkable communities of this family are the following. The 

 people of Van Diemen's Land have the preceding characteristics in the extreme, 

 although their country is as cold as Ireland. So also the natives of the Great 

 Andaman Island, who are of small stature, with slender limbs, protuberant 

 abdomen, high shoulders, and large heads, exhibiting, in the language of Colonel 

 Symes, a horrid mixture of famine and ferocity.* Forster compares the people 

 of Mallicolo to monkeys, and asserts that he had seen no Negroes in whom the 

 forehead w^as so depressed. This family is also found in the numerous islands 

 adjacent to New Guinea, as New Britain, Admiralty Island, the Hermit Islands, 

 &c. In Santa Cruz they are said to be less intensely black, and to have large 

 foreheads. They also inhabit Tanna and Erromanga, Vanikoro, Viti, New Cale- 

 donia and many other islands ; and there is every reason to believe that they are 

 the aboriginal inhabitants of these various localities. 



The Papuas. It has already been remarked, that the term Papua has been 

 generally applied to all the black races of the Indian Archipelago ; but Quoi and 

 Gaimard have recently established the fact that the true Papuas are a hybrid 

 family of Malays and Oceanic Negroes. These Papuas are of the middle stature, 

 and generally pretty well formed, yet they occasionally have attenuated limbs. 

 Their skin is not black, but a dark brown ; and their hair is very black, neither 

 lank nor crisped, but woolly, rather fine, and so much frizzled as to give the 

 appearance of enormous magnitude to the head ; and they comb out these wiry 

 locks in such manner as to make the mass three feet in diameter. They have 

 but little beard : the nose is sensibly flattened, the lips thick, and the cheek bones 

 large ; but there is nothing disgusting in their physiognomy.f The Papua skulls 

 figured in Freycinct's Voyage, have the broad face of the Malay, and the whole 

 head is somewhat rounded, with large parietal protuberances.^ 



* Embassy to Ava, p. 130. t Bory, L'Homme, I, p. 305. 



X Voy. de PUranie, Atlas, PI. 1 and 2. 



