THE MALAYS, THE NATIVES OF FORMOSA, AND THE TIBETANS. 793 



The cranial sutures were simple and unossified ; a few small Wormian bones were in 

 the lambdoid and the right pterion had an epipteric bone ; the jugal processes were 

 tuberculated. The inion was strong and dependent, and the muscular ridges were pro- 

 nounced. The cephalic index, 78 "5, in the higher term of the mesaticephalic group, 

 approached the brachycephali ; the vertical index, 81 '4, hypsicephalic, was greater than 

 the cephalic. The internal capacity could not be accurately obtained, owing to the 

 cranium being injured. 



Bajaus or Sea Gypsies. Table II. Plates III., V. 



The Sea Gypsies, named Bajau, Bajow, Baju, or Badjoo, are wandering fishermen, 

 who live either in boats or in houses raised on piles near the mouths of rivers in 

 Borneo and Celebes. They are said by Sir Hugh Low to have come originally 

 from Johore on the Straits of Malacca.* Sir Spencer St John described them as short 

 in stature, slight and active, with pinched small faces, low foreheads and bright eyes. 

 They wear the hair tied in a knot on the front of the head. They practise tattooing. 



Two adult skulls presented by Dr Adam son were labelled Bajau or Bajow. The larger, 

 M, that of Mohammed Tali, was from Brunei, a small native State intervening between 

 North Borneo and Sarawak. The man was said to have been muscular, about 5 ft. 4 in. in 

 stature, with dark skin, coarse long black hair, brown eyes, nose flattened at the bridge, 

 lips moderately thick. He was a well-known cattle thief, and was shot whilst defending 

 a fort which he had built. The smaller skull, N, was marked Malay trader ; it may have 

 been that of a man, though the sex characters were not very definite ; the wisdoms had 

 not erupted, but the basi-cranial synchondrosis was ossified. The skulls were not 

 smoke-stained, and M retained the lower jaw. 



Norma verticalis. — The crania were rounded in outline ; that of Tali was brachy- 

 cephalic, cephalic index 829, whilst N was hyperbrachycephalic, index 89. The high 

 index was due to the glabello-occipital diameter, in the mean 159 mm., being much less 

 than in the other native skulls from Borneo, whilst the greatest breadth was about 

 the average. The crania were not keeled in the sagittal line ; the vault sloped gently 

 downwards to the prominent parietal eminences, below which the side walls were not 

 quite vertical. In M the parieto-occipital slope was almost vertical, though with a 

 slight obliquity to the left, and the back of the skull was flattened, apparently by artificial 

 pressure, so that it was almost in the same vertical plane as the inion. N had a similar 

 parieto-occipital flattening, though without any obliquity. Both were phsenozygous. 



Norma lateralis. — The forehead was almost vertical, the glabella and supraorbital 

 ridges were feeble and distinct from the upper border of the orbit ; the nasion was "not 

 depressed. The bridge of the nose was faintly keeled with a shallow concavity forward. 

 In M the nasal bones were 1 7 mm. long in the mesial line, in N only 1 3 mm. and very 



* They are well known at the present time as frequenting the straits between the islands of the Johore Archi- 

 pelago, where they bear the name Sea-Jakun or Orang Laut. They have been regarded as an aboriginal, primitive 

 Malay sea tribe. Vide the works of Nelson Annandale, Rudolf Martin, and Messrs Skeat and Blagden. 



