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the tip being markedly pointed ; the other form in which the 

 dorsum is higher between the eyes, is straight, and sometimes 

 arched, and the tip pointed, depressed, and incurved to form a 

 thick fat septum. In this form the nostrils are almost concealed, 

 and the alse nasi much inflated. En face both dorsa are straight, 

 the first form exhibiting the nostrils fully and the septum ; the 

 second form with the dorsum compressed slightly in the middle, 

 the nostrils scarcely seen, and the alw nasi inflated. The upper 

 lip is prognathus ; the lower somewhat retreating or orthogna- 

 thus. The teeth of the upper jaw overlap those of the lower 

 jaw, but this is not invariable, many of both sexes having the 

 teeth meeting evenly. From the malar region the face rapidly 

 converges to the small, non-protruding, round, and rather well- 

 shaped chin. The ears are small, but a good deal disfigured 

 by the large irregularly bored holes and slits made in the 

 lobe, while the helix and scaphoid fossa are distorted by a 

 series of smaller holes in which the earrings graduate from 

 above downwards, from small to greater. 



From my own observations on the living people, as well as 

 from an examination kindly made for me by Dr. Garson of the 

 crania which I brought home, two very different types can 

 be made out, the brachycephalic and the dolichocephalic, the 

 former greatly predominating. From the differences in colour of 

 the skin, from the variation seen in the features and in the 

 character of the hair it is evident that in the Tenimber Islands 

 we have a distinctly mixed race, consisting of Malayan and 

 Polynesian elements, as well as of the Papuan as found in New 

 Guinea ; in fact, some of their crania are indistinguishable from 

 specimens obtained near Port Moresby. The Malayan type of 

 nose did not always coincide with the presence of straight hair, 

 though in some cases they did so markedly. I noted women 

 in Larat with perfectly straight hair, and yet with the Papuan 

 type of nose and face ; and others again in whom frizzly hair 

 accompanied a nose half Papuan, half Malayan. 



By Polynesian I mean the brown race seen in the Fiji and 

 Samoan Islands, as distinguished from the sooty black tribes 

 occurring in Aru and New Guinea. This commingling may 

 be the result of many causes. Timor-laut was probably one 

 of the last Islands, as Mr. Keane believes, occupied by the 

 Polynesian race in Malaysia during its eastern migration tq 



