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with light brown patches ; the hair is straight and thin, 

 and its natural colour reddish or of a dark chestnut brown. 

 There are also found in Timor all intermediate shades of the 

 skin, from dark yellow to black or chocolate brown, and the 

 hair from red and straight to the short and woolly (in another 

 place, * short-tufted ') hair of the Papuas." As in Timor-laut, 

 I believe we have in Timor a mixture of Malay represented 

 perhaps in such faces as Figs. 1 and 2, Papuan (Fig. 3, p. 

 466), and Polynesian (Fig. 4, p. 466) races. The accompany- 

 ing figures, sketched from one kingdom, will show this mixture 

 better than volumes of description ; they are the portraits of 



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NATITES OP BIBigUfC. 



PIG. 4. 



people taken at random from those constantly about me in 

 Bibifugu. The colour of skin, form of head, features of face, 

 character and distribution of hair I met with in every variety 

 and amount of comminglement. 



In the eastern extremity of the island the people, I am 

 told, resemble Malays, and they speak the Malay language. 

 Among the Fatumatubia Mountains — I have it on the, as I 

 believe, excellent authority of one of the commandants of the 

 district — lives a race of dwarfish people, speaking a " language " 

 of their own. Their dwarfishness consists not so much in the 

 dimensions of their bodies, as in the shortness of their limbs 

 which are thick and strong. They live among the rocks, are 

 great robbers and much detested. The men wear only the 



