110 THE PIGMIES. 



We may consequently infer that the primitive Negritos of 

 Malacca were not taller than the Aetas or Mincopies. ( x ) 



Our knowledge is much less advanced with regard to the Ne- 

 gritos of India. Here, cross-breeding has very nearly caused the 

 primitive stock to disappear, so much so that the existence of 

 real negroes in that country has, until lately, been formally 

 denied. The observations of several English travellers, ( 2 ) and 

 the evidence gathered by M. Eousselet, ( 3 ) must, however, 

 have removed all doubt on the subject ; they show us that a few 

 rare and unaltered specimens of the primitive' type are still to be 

 found, but only in the most inaccessible and unhealthy parts of 

 the country. Unfortunately, the information collected about 

 them amounts to very little. The individual seen by our coun- 

 tryman, and of whom he made a portrait, ran away during 

 the following night", terrified by the partial inspection he had un- 

 dergone. English travellers, who have been able to examine them 

 more leisurely, have gathered but very little information about them, 

 in some instances they even are silent respecting their hair, their 

 drawings alone affording information in that respect. 



M. Eotjsselet, on the contrary, has not failed to men- 

 tion the ivoolly curls which partly concealed the forehead 

 of his Bandar-lokh. (*) This characteristic, certainly the most 



(i) In order to have only the most accurate terms of comparison, I 

 left out the measurements calculated by Mr. Flowee, and also different ob- 

 servations on women taken by different travellers, as well as the figures 

 obtained by M. Montano with regard to Udais and Jacouns, of whom he 

 only measured two individuals. 



(2 ) I will chiefly mention the works of Mr. Justin Campbell — T7ie Ethno- 

 logy °f India (Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. XXXV, p. 2, Supplementary 

 number ) ; D Alton — Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal ; Feyee — A few words 

 concerning the mil-people inhabiting the Forests of the Cochin State 

 (Journal of the R. A. S. of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Series, vol. III). 

 Among the plates published in these various works, several represent pho- 

 tographs of individuals whose Negrito type strikes one at the first glance. 



(3) Tableau des Races de VInde Centrale {Revue d 'Anthropologic, vol. II, p. 

 276 , with a plate and a map. Previously to this, I had inserted, in my 

 Etude sur les Mincopies, a note transmitted to me by M. Eousselet himself 

 and referring to the same subject. 



(*) Literally men-monkeys. That name has been given to these Negritos by 

 the neighbouring tribes. They also call them Djangal, ov jungle-men, which is 

 a generic name the}' apply to all populations more wild than themselves. 



