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application was promptly responded to by that distinguished traveller, who sent 

 me a beautiful drawing of which the annexed lithograph is an exact copy. The 

 original is preserved in the collection of the illustrious Professor Blumenbach, 

 and is the identical specimen brought by the Prince de Wied, and figured in the 

 Decades Craniorum. Not having had access to the skull itself, I cannot give all 

 its measurements according to my adopted plan; but the following description 

 from the above work of Professor Blumenbach, will in a great degree supply the 

 deficiency. 



"The age of this man," says he, "was about five and twenty. During the 

 war between the Botocudos and the Portuguese, he was accustomed to join his 

 countrymen in their hostile incursions ; but after hostilities ceased, he frequently 

 visited the garrison on the Rio Doce, where he not long after fell sick and died. 



" The cranium, which is large, is also very ponderous from the thickness of 

 the bones, and their dense and hard texture: and as a whole, if you disregard for 

 a moment the under jaw, the figure and interval of the orbits, the elevated nasal 

 spine, and other particulars peculiar to man, the general aspect approaches nearer 

 to that of the Orang Outang than any other skull from a barbarous nation to be 

 seen in my collection. I have indeed one or two specimens of the Negro, in 

 which the upper jaw is more projecting ; but this skull differs from them in other 

 respects, besides having the cheek bones more prominent, and a greater swell of 

 the parietal bones. 



" But what deserves particular notice is an indentation, shaped like the point 

 of the finger on wax, which remains after the loss of the front teeth, the sockets 

 of which are compressed, or rather completely absorbed. So universally, the 

 Prince de Wied assures me, does this happen to the youth of this nation from 

 wearing the wooden lip-ornament, already mentioned, that you will scarcely find 

 one of them arrived at the age of thirty who retains these teeth."* 



I have only to add the following measurements, which are derived from the 

 drawing. 



Longitudinal diameter 6.5 inches. 



Vertical diameter about 5.6 inches. 



Facial angle, 



Decas Cran. Sexta, p. 16; et Tab. LVITF. 



