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that of Malay populations. ( x ) Mr. Flower, on his part, has obser- 

 ved that their hair is more elliptical in section than that of any 

 other human race. ( 2 ) 



All travellers affirm that the Aetas, like the Mincopies 

 are of a decidedly dark complexion. ( 3 ) As for the half -breed trbes 

 of Malacca, the mixture of blood seems to have produced a lighter 

 colouring of the skin. In a note which M. Moxtaxo kindly 

 wrote to me, he describes those he saw in the neigbourhood of 

 of Kessang ( north of Malacca ) as having often a fuliginous skin. 

 Judging from the photographs, they seem to be even of a darker 

 shade. A statue of black bronze would give the very same effect 

 as the robust Sakai to whom I have already alluded. 



In spite of the similarity of hair and complexion, it is. however, 

 impossible to confound a Mincopie with a true African negro., the 

 divergence being much too great in the shape of the head and the 

 features of the face. The head, seen in front, appears to have a glo- 

 bular appearance, instead of being compressed and elongated. 

 The forehead is wide and in inany cases prominent, in lieu of 

 being narrow and slanting. ( 4 ) The face widens out at the cheek- 

 bones, which draw out the cheeks rather too much. The ears, 

 most conspicuous on their shaved heads, are small and well 

 shaped; the nose is very depressed at the root, straight, and rather 

 short than otherwise; nostrils not too full, generally narrow ; ("*) 

 the lips, though not very thin, do not project as in the Negro, and 

 above all are not heavy at the commissure ; the chin small, rounded 

 and hardly retreating. Prognathism can scarcely be said to exist. 



(1) Unpublished note communicated to me by M. Moxtaxo. 



(2) Loc. cit., p. 127. 



( 3 ) I refer the reader to my quotations of Messrs. Mouat, Tytlee, Cole- 

 brooke, St. Johx, &c. {Etude sur les Mincopies ). Symes and Colonel Tytler 

 are tbe only ones who have alluded to a sooty -Hack complexion. I have already 

 remarked that this description is probably due to their having seen indi- 

 viduals who still retained traces of the 'yellow earth with which they are in 

 the habit of covering their body as a protection against mosquitos. 



O) This trait is very remarkable in the only woman seen de projilm. the 

 photograph of Colonel Tytler, which has been reproduced in my Etude. All 

 the individuals depicted by Mr Dobson have been taken full face, as well as 

 those represented in M. Giglioli*s engraving. 



(5) For instance, the chief represented by Mr. Dobson, loc. cit., pi, XXXI. 



