THE PIGMIES. Ill 



important of all when the negro race is in question, testifies to the 

 purity of blood, though the colour of the skin was of a rusty- 

 black. ( x ) Let us add that his general physique, in spite of the 

 alteration brought on by misery and hunger, was in exact keeping 

 with the true Negrito type. His height, says M. Eousselet, was 

 hardly l m 50. 



The Puttouas, measured by an English Officer, reached l m 57, 

 but the women were only l m 291. According to Dalton", the 

 size of the black and frizzle-headed Juangs is l m 525 for men and 

 l m 416 for the women. Among the Oraons the maximum stature 

 observed was l m 57, and fell again to l m 525 with the Bhuihers 

 who, by their general physique, reminded him of the Anda- 

 manese. This last figure is often to be found in the description of 

 other more strongly mixed tribes. The average of all these figures 

 is l m 488 at the outside. This group of populations is, therefore, 

 similar, as regards height, to the preceding groups. 



These differences in size can be expressed by figures, and can 

 consequently be made obvious to every one ; but it is otherwise with 

 regard to other characteristics, such as the general proportions of 

 the body, the features of the face, &c, of which only numerous 

 drawings can convey a true notion. All I can, therefore, do is to 

 summarise the impressions which I have gathered from the 

 various documents fortunately put at my disposal. In writing these 

 lines, I have, under my eyes, Colonel Tytler's full length 

 photographs ( 2 ) of seven Andamanese ; the phototypes published 

 by Mr. Dobsok, and representing, also in their full height, 



The village visited by the English Officer belonged to the Puttouas, leaf -men, so 

 called from the habit of women to wear, as only garment, two bundles of fresh 

 leaves hanging in front and behind. ( Eousselet. ) 



( i ) This light colour is probably a consequence of the wretched existence of 

 these tribes from time immemorial. It is known that under the effect of sickness, 

 the African Negro becomes paler. 



(2) These two photographs represent a grown-up man, a young boy and 

 five women or girls. In one of them, they are naked ; in the other, they 

 wear a kind of blouse tight round the neck and drawn round the waist by 

 a belt. However elementary this costume may be, yet it is sufficient, in spite 

 of their shaved heads, to remove somewhat of the strangeness they display 

 when entirely nude. 



