126 PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



as well as with the straight-haired Siamese who have entered the peninsula from the 

 north, so as to lead to a modification in the physical characteristics of the people and 

 the production in certain districts of a mixed race. 



As regards the cranial configuration, the skull of the frizzly-haired Panghan, 

 described by Professor Virchow, was brachycephalic ; and the figure which he has 

 reproduced obviously represents a type of skull resembling that of the Andaman 

 Islanders. The skull form, therefore, confirms the view of the presence of a Negrito 

 people in the Malay peninsula. 



Of the two skulls which I have described, the one from the Kintah district, from 

 its locality and the nature of the interment, must be regarded as of an aboriginal race 

 and not a Malay. The skull was dolichocephalic, a proportion which belongs neither to 

 the Negrito nor to the Malay. From Dr Scott's description of the people, to whom he 

 gives the general name of " Sakai," it would seem that the hill-tribes in this district 

 had long and not frizzly hair, a skin not black but lighter in colour than the Malay, 

 which, conjoined with the dolichocephalic skull, gave race characters differing materially 

 from the Negritos. These people, however, have, like the Negritos, a low stature. 

 The skull from Pahang, on the other hand, differed so materially in its proportions 

 and general appearance from the Kintah specimen, that it cannot, I think, have 

 belonged to the same tribe or race, — the proportion of the length-breadth index, 

 though numerically mesaticephalic, 79*4, was essentially brachycephalic, though the 

 parieto-occipital slope was not abruptly steep. In the form of the vertex and the 

 proportions of the nose it differed from the Kintah skull, but its injured condition 

 did not admit of a complete comparison being made. I hesitate, therefore, to give an 

 opinion on the race to which it had belonged. 



From the consideration of the whole question there seems to be little doubt that in 

 the hill regions of the Malay peninsula two aboriginal races are met with, distinguished 

 from each other by the colour of the skin, the characters of the hair, and the form of 

 the cranium, though both possess in common a low stature. 



