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showing the least symptom of prognathism in the jaws. Very Ml 

 lips, but not gaping nor at all Negro-like in their tumidity. Chin 

 not retiring nor yet roundly salient, but level with the gums, or in 

 the same plane with the teeth, and square and strong, as well as the 

 jaws which afford ample room in front for an uncrowded set of beau- 

 tiful teeth. Body well proportioned, but somewhat long (as well as 

 massive and square) in the trunk and in the arms, relatively to the 

 legs. Hands and feet well made and large, but rather as to breadth 

 than length. Head well set on the short thick neck, and shoulders 

 high. Chest, splendid, wide and deep, and general form, good. Ex- 

 pression Mongolian, (but not at all markedly so as to features) and 

 calm and placidly good-natured. Ears bored, but not distended ; and 

 tattooing or other disfigurement of the skin quite unknown to all 

 these races, as I may say once for all. 



No. II. A Horpa of Tango, west of G-yariing towards Amdo. 

 Name Isaba. Age 38 years. A man of good height (5-7^) and figure, 

 but far less powerful than the Amdoan, and somewhat darker in co- 

 lour. Spare of flesh, but not actually meagre. Colour, a pale brown, 

 without yellow or red, like all the Himalayans and Tibetans, and 

 the eye, of a dark clear brown, as usual with them. No trace of 

 ruddiness on cheek. Hair of the head, moustache and whisker, pure 

 black. Hair of head, long, straight, strong, abundant. Moustache 

 small and feeble. Whisker rather ampler. No beard, nor a trace of 

 hair on the chest, back or limbs. Head longer (fore and aft) than 

 wide, but scarcely dolichocephalic, though not truncated occipitally, 

 nor compressed nor depressed nor pyramidised. Vertical view, oval, 

 the wider end being the posteal or occipital, and being wider there 

 than between the ears. Eacial angle, good. Contour of the face 

 long and oval, without any trace of the lozenge breadth and angu- 

 larity. Eorehead, narrow and rather low, but not retiring. Cheek 

 bones not salient laterally, nor the frontal sinuses or orbits, promi- 

 nent. Ears large and loose. Eyes of good size, remote, but not 

 noticeably oblique, though the inner angle be tumid with the usual 

 constriction thereto of the upper lid which somewhat narrows the 

 parting of the lids. Nose straight, not very salient, yet well raised 

 between the eyes, and not dilated towards the tip, and the nares ellip- 

 tic and long, but the bridge nevertheless broad and obtusely round- 

 ed. Mouth good, but large and prominent from the fullness of the 



