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SCHLAGINHAUFEN observes rightly that the possible cross with a Pigmy-tribe can only be 

 discussed in good reason, when the qualities of the pure Pigmy are sufficiently established. 

 And this is far from being the case hère ! 



Before PÔCH and NEUHAUSS had revealed the Kai, travellers had already often found 

 remarkably little bones (FlNSCH, Deutsche Marine Expédition, VON LUSCHAN [97]), or observed 

 strikingly little raen among the greater fellow-tribesmen (MEYER, LAUTERBACH). WEULE 

 acknowledges however [234] that the three little men in the bamboo frame hâve a perfect 

 Papuan appearance, and LAUTERBACH says that there were graduai transitions between the 

 dwarfs and the greater éléments. NEUHAUSS states emphatically that his Pigmy-types among 

 the Kai are not différent in physiognomy from the other Papuans. 



Ail thèse things considered, the words of MEYER, quoted below, affect us as more 

 sober than the suppositions, suggested repaetedly elsevvhere. M.EYER wrote j 123] : "a Négritie 

 race, side by side with the Papuan race, nobody has been able to discover, just because it 

 does not exist, and it does not exist, because the Papuan race, in spite of its variability, is 

 on the one hand a uniform race, and on the other as good as identical with the Negritoes". 

 And a little further followed the sedate observation: "the question, whether the Papuans are 

 a mixed race or not, is not yet ripe for décision". What affects so pleasantly in MEYER's 

 trend of mind, is that, putting the natural variability first, he begins with the simpler and 

 does not like to proceed to the more complicated — mixture, division in races — than after 

 seriously proved necessity. Nowadays, a quarter of a century later, also Meyer would probably 

 not object to considering the Papuans as a mixed race. Nevertheless, still it holds good to a 

 certain degree that the Papuan race is an uniform one, for up to the présent nobody has 

 been able to discover a Négritie race side by side with the Papuans. My proper researches 

 as well as the literature-study of the three parts of New-Guinea disposed me in favour of 

 this opinion. 



Relatively uniform of course! If one should be careful in one's assertions, it must be 

 concerning New-Guinea; that is the country, where after ail everybody is right ! When I read 

 about WOLLASTON's Tapiro: "they remained about ten yards distant, but even so it was 

 plainly évident that they were of a différent race from the people of the low country", it 

 was as if I had a period from my own diary before me, only I had written instead of a 

 différent race another kind of Papuan. The word race is used hère in a too libéral sensé! 

 Now it is established that the central mountains are the dominion of a small sort of Papuans, 

 it is quite plain to suppose that they, less influenced by tribes wandering along the New- 

 Guinean coasts, possess a more original and therefore perhaps more Négritie character than 

 the coast-tribes. 



SCHLAGINHAUFEN [ 191] has clearly explained, how little the théories of KOLLMANN 

 and Father W. SCHMIDT are supported by the facts. He feels more inclined to the theory that 

 supposes the Pigmies to be bom under the influence of exterior circumstances "dass heiszt 

 der Umwelt im weitesten Sinne des Wortes", or, as the result of a selection-process as this 

 has been suggested in 1906 by GUSTAV SCHWALBE '). Entirely refraining from spéculations, 



1) He observes rightly that this conception has nothing to do "mit derjenigen einer Verkiimmerung oder gar 

 ciner Degeneration". Not without reason he adds: "Es fehlt indessen nicht an Autoren, welche die beiden Dinge nicht 

 auseinander zu halten vermôgen und die Auslese-Theoiie mit dev Verkummerungstheorie zusammen werfen." F. Sarasin, 



