112 THE PIGMIES. 



divers groups of sixteen natives of the same islands ; ( x ) thirty- 

 six photographs by M. Montano, showing the features of forty- 

 eight Aetas, men and women, young and old, pure and mixed; lastly, 

 two photographs of Perak Saka'is, taken by M. de Saint Pol-Lias, 

 and kindly placed at my disposal by his fellow traveller, M. 

 J. E. be la Ceoix. ( 2 ) 



Never have such a quantity of authentic documents been collect- 

 ed. As I discuss them, I shall take the Mincopies as a term of 

 comparison ; owing to an isolation which has extended to this day. 

 they have preserved an ethnical purity that is seldom to be found 

 even among populations which are best protected from the 

 infusion of any foreign blood. 



What strikes us at first in the twenty-three portraits of Minco" 

 pies is a great similarity in the proportions of the body, and in the 

 features of the face, and the almost identical expression of their 

 countenance. Indeed, there is nothing surprising in the fact. 

 Isolated for centuries ( 3 ) from the rest of the world, marrying only 



(i) Onthe Andaman a nese by G-. B. Dobson; The Jo wnal of tlie 



Anthropological Institute, vol. IY, p. 457, pi. XXXI, XXXII, and XXXIII. 

 These phototypes represent five men, seven women, and four young girls. The 

 original photographs, such as Colonel Tytleb's, wei . southerly 



part of the island known for a 1c :. 



which ultimately was found, to be di ree 



islets (See the map of E. H. Mast, Esq., in the = the Anthropo- 



logical Institute, vol. VII, p. 105. 



(2) MM. de Saint Pol-Lias and J. E. de la Ceoix w 



with a scientific mission by the " Ministere de 1' Instruction Publique." 

 M. de la Croix intends publishing shortly his observations on these i 

 I have to thank him all the more for having cc bed to me these 



photographs as well as notes to which I will ] 



(3) The Andaman Islands were kno 1 ' from the ninth 

 century (Relation des Voyages faits par les m dans le 

 IXme Silelede Vere Chretienne by Abou-Zeyd-Ha : Laxgles, 

 1811 ; translated by M. Reynaud, 1819), lout the reputation of barbarism and 

 cannibalism attributed to the inhabitants!. y. The 



motive, and.pr< je of cocoanut ich are no- 



where to be seen -':■ tie archipel from 



invading it as they did the Nicobars. In 1790, the English attempted 

 to establish there a convict station (Fort Cornwall is) which n Toned 



boon after. The scheme was taken up again and carried out in 1857. The 

 new Settlement (Port Blair) attracted many travellers, among whom Dr. 

 XLOUAT deserves a special mention. Maps, drawings, photographs, complete 

 skeletons, &c., were sent to Europe and examined by 3131 E, Owen and 



