THE PAGAN RACES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 5 



no pains to get together everything that has been recorded in 

 the various journals and works on the subject of these strange 

 races, besides adding extensively from their own observations. 

 They have collected too a very fine series of photographs of 

 the different races, and added many of the weapons, houses, 

 dress, traps, and other objects, so that the whole work gives 

 a very full and graphic view of one of the most interesting and 

 least known of the peoples of the earth. When one looks back 

 for a comparatively few years ago in ethnological and 

 anthropological works to see what was known about this people, 

 and sees what poor and often inaccurate accounts we then had, 

 and find the only existing portraits of any of the races were 

 Miklucho Maclay's rough sketches, one can appreciate the 

 value of this work, and the immense labour of the authors in 

 compiling it, and they are heartily to be congratulated on the 

 results. 



As they very pertinently point out in the introduction to 

 the work there is great need of a thorough survey of the whole 

 Peninsula from both a geographical and ethnological point of 

 view by the local Governments. The Governments of French 

 Indo-china, the Dutch Indies and the American Philippines 

 have published and are still publishing excellent works, beauti- 

 fully illustrated, on the ethnology, geography, and all branches 

 of science of the colonies under their control. The British 

 nation with larger, richer and more important colonies, for 

 some reason not very clear to anyone, has practically done 

 nothing at all for the advancement of knowledge of its vast 

 empire. The whole of this work has been left to enthusiastic 

 private persons who devote their time and money to such work. 

 This apathy must be much regretted by all who have the 

 cause of science and progress at heart. 



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