70 HILL TRIBES OF NORTH FORMOSA. 
The Hill Savages of North Formosa are, without doubt, | 
exactly like other human beings in the shape of their 
bodies and number of their limbs, and although they 
are as wild as the animals which roam about their country, 
have no written Janguage of their own, and live in a most pri- 
mitive style, yet there are no signs of a Darwinian tail, neither 
do they at all give you the idea that their progenitors were of 
the monkey species. 
The men are not remarkably tall; in fact I should say 
that few of them measure over five feet nine inches, and the 
majority of them are, probably, under five feet six inches. 
In the South of the island, it is said, the men are of a 
larger mould than those residing North of Latitude 24 N. 
The complexion of old men of the tribes is very sallow 
and often swarthy; that of ycung, healthy warriors muck lighter 
and clearer, but there is observable in the majority of faces a 
dark tinge not to be seen in the faces of Chinese, not quite so 
dark as the complexion of mixed descendants of Portuguese 
settlers in Macao, but resembling more the tint to be seen in 
the faces of fair-complexioned Japanese. They are, if anything, 
darker-skinned than ordinary Chinamen who have not been 
exposed to the sun ; but the peculiar strain referred to, does not 
appear so distinctly in the younger members of the tribe, or so 
strong, as it does in the complexions of those who have taken 
an active part in hunting, fighting, and in the hard daily strug- 
gle for existence. 
The skin of the darkest savage of the North of the island 
is not so dark as the complexions of many representatives of 
Spain, southern France and Italy, and in higher latitudes, 
many faces of Celtic type shew as dark a hue as that observa- 
ble in the faces of the aborigines of the North. In old mem- 
bers of the tribes, the colour of the skin essumes a duskier and 
sallower tint, constant on the frequent exposure to the sun and 
to the weather, but with all this, there is no similarity of colour 
to that visible in the faces of African negroes. 
The strain of negro blood was plainly visible in the 
faces of the wrecked Pellew Islanders, but in the colour 
