118 THE PIOMIES. 



judge from M. Rotjsselet's ( 1 ) drawing. Only, here the type has 

 been degraded by the miserable conditions of life in which the 

 Djandals are placed in Amarkantak. The forehead has become 

 depressed, the nose has got bigger, and the lips thicker, though not 

 projecting so much as in the Papuan- Negrito, the chin hardly re- 

 ceding. In spite of this physical degradation, these unfortunate 

 Negritos are far from having assumed the well-known countenance 

 of the African Negro, still less the look of a monkey, or any other 

 animal. On the other hand, the Oraon and the two Santals, repre- 

 sented at full length by Mr. Daltos", unmistakeably remind us of 

 the Negrito type ( 2 ) ; the same is the case with regard to some of 

 the Mulchers depicted by Mr. Eryer. ( 3 ) 



This description would not be complete if I did not say a few 

 words regarding the skeleton : but I shall be very brief, and, for 

 further information, will refer the reader to technical publica- 

 tions, and more especially to Mr. Flower's exhaustive work. {*) 



The skeleton of the Mincopie, although small, presents no sign 

 of degeneracy or weakness. The bones are comparatively thick, 

 the muscular points well defined and at times remarkably conspi- 

 cuous. The relative proportions of the bones, the shape of the 

 pelvis, &c, are not far from the average of what exists with the 

 Australian or the Negro. 



It is quite otherwise with regard to the head. The Australian 

 and the true African Negro are dolicocephalous, whereas, as I have 

 already had occasion to observe, all Negritos are more or less bra- 

 chycephalous. This latter characteristic is, therefore, to be found 

 among the Mincopies, ( 5 ) and is associated with others which give 



(i) Loc. cit., p. 280. 



(a) Loc. cit., Frontispiece and p. XXIX. 



(3) Loc. cit. 



(*) The Memoirs of Messrs. Owen, Busk, Pruner-Bey, quoted in my 

 Etvde sur les Mincojnes, may be consulted, the latter also, as well as the 

 Crania Fthnica, p. 183, pi. XIII to XVIII. 



(5) M. Hamy and I have found, for the horizontal index of the 

 Andamanese, 82.38 for men, and 84 for women. Mr. Flower's measure- 

 ments, made on a much larger number of skulls, reduce it to 80.50 and 

 82.70. It will be seen that the difference between the two sexes remains very 

 nearly the same, and that the women are more brachycephalous than the men. 



