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these points, prefers the title of Indonesians. The scientific 
descriptions of a typical Malay is as follows :—“ Stature little 
over five feet, complexion olive yellow, head brachy-cephal- 
ous or round, cheek-bones prominent, eyes black and slighlty 
oblique, nose small but not flat, nostrils dilated, hands small 
and delicate, legs thin and weak, hair black, coarse and 
lank, beard absent or scant ;”’ but these Indonesians to whom 
belong most of the indigenous inhabitants of Celebes, are 
taller and have fairer or light brown complexions and regular 
features, connecting them with the brown Polynesians of the 
Eastern Pacific ‘‘ who may be regarded as their descendants,” 
and Professor KEANE accounts for their presence by assuming 
‘‘a remote migration of the Caucasic race to South-Eastern 
Asia, of which evidences are not lacking in Camboja and else- 
where, and a further onward movement, first to the Archi- 
pelago andthen East to the Pacific.” It is needless to say 
that the aborigines themselves have the haziest and most 
unscientific notion of their own origin, as the following ac- 
count, gravely related to me by a party of Buludupihs, will 
exemplify :— 
‘©The Origin of the Buludupth Race. 
In past ages a Chinese* settler had taken to wife a daughter 
of the aborigines, by whom he had a female child. Her 
parents lived in a hilly district (Au/wd=hill), covered with a 
large forest tree, known by the name of of7h. One day a 
jungle fire occurred, and after it was over, the child jumped 
down from the house (native houses are raised on piles off 
the ground), and went up to look at a half burnt ofzh log, and 
suddenly disappeared and was never seen again. But the 
parents heard the voice of a spirit issue from the log, announc- 
ing that it had taken the child to wife and that, in course of 
time, the bereaved parents would find an infant in the jungle, 
whom they were to consider as the offspring of the marriage, 
* The Buludupihs inhabit the China or Kina-batangan river, and Sir HuGu 
Low, in a note to his history of the Sultans of Brunai, in a number of the 
Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, says that it is pro- 
bable that in former days the Chinese had a Settlement or Factory at that 
river, as some versions of the native history of Brunai expressly state that the 
Chinese wife of one of the earliest Sultans was brought thence. 
