29. The Hihnology of India. 
thick-lipped expression of countenance lingers long. The Gond Raja 
of Nagpore is of a family for generations civilised and Mahommedan, 
doubtless of very far from pure Aboriginal blood, and rather fair- 
skinned, but even in him I noticed the thick lips as prominent as in 
an African. Major Tickell seems to describe the ‘ Hos,’ who are iden- 
tical with ‘ Lurka Coles’ and closely allied to Moondahs and Sontals 
(one of the ugliest of races), as handsome ; but everything is compara- 
tive, and I suspect that this beauty is of the same kind as that which 
enthusiastic African travellers are constantly discovering in Negro 
tribes. The Hos of the border land have probably much intermixed 
with QOoriahs, and are less ugly than their congeners are always 
described to be. 
Setting aside then the numerous half-breeds, borderers, and people 
of imperfect type, I take it that the general physical type of all the 
purest Aboriginal tribes, is that which is commonly known as Negrito. 
They are small and slight, very black, face broad and flat, the thick 
lips already mentioned very prominent, noses broad and nostrils wide; — 
beard scanty, hair very abundant and tangled, of a shock-headed 
appearance, sometimes curly or even woolly. The peculiar Mongolian 
or Chinese form of the eye is not conspicuous, and altogether the 
features and the face are rather what we best know as African than 
Mongolian. This description crops up everywhere in all the various 
descriptions of Aboriginal tribes. I have not collected all these testi- 
monies, but I will give one or two on which I can lay my hands. 
Col. Dalton says, “The Jushpore Oraons are the ugliest of the race, 
with foreheads ‘ villainous low,’ flat noses and projecting maxillaries, 
they approach the Negro in physiognomy.’”’ And again, “ The Kaurs, 
next to the Jushpore Oraons, are the ugliest race I have seen, dark, 
coarse-featured, wide mouths and thick lips.” In a note which he 
was good enough to send in answer to some inquiries which I made, 
he adds, “‘ The Oraons have more of the African type of feature, and I 
have seen amongst them woolly heads.” An isolated tribe on the 
Hast Coast, called ‘ Chenchwars,’ are described in similar terms, and said 
to be “ just what you might suppose to result from the crossing of the 
Malacca Aborigines with the common people of this country,” the 
Malacca Aborigines being very marked Negritos. The Savage Gonds 
in the forests east of the Wyngunga seem to be of a similat type. So 
