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hair of the head. The hair is of a dark shade. Besides the' 

 closely curled individuals, who form the main element of 

 the unmixed Orang Sahai and Orang Semang not a few 

 cross-breeds of different grades are to be found, whose hair 

 presents all possible gradations from the frizzled Papuan 

 hair to the straight hair of the Malays. 



Colour of the Skin. — In general the colour is darker 

 than that of the Malays, but it varies between very wide 

 limits. The approximate colour of the skin is that of the 

 medium shades between N. 1ST. 28,42 and 21,46 of Broca's 

 table. The Sahai, like other dark races, have the back, the 

 shoulder and the pudenda a little darker than the rest of 

 the body, the outer or stretch-side of the extremities is a 

 shade darker than the inner or bend-side. At the lower part 

 of the seat besides a darker colouring I noticed among older 

 people a kind of callous formation. The skin was very rugged 

 and rough ; but this is quite natural, the costume of the Sakai 

 covering only the waist and the perinaeum. The women in 

 general are lighter coloured than the men. 



Eye. — On observing the eye of this people somewhat closely 

 two characteristics present themselves, first the very remark- 

 able size of the Plica semilunaris or Palpebra tertia ; I have 

 represented the proportionate size as exactly as possible on 

 Pla.te II figure 4. It forms a reddish membrane, which is 

 a little thicker at the lower edge. As the Plica is transpa- 

 rent, and as the Sclera is not white its size does not strike 

 one at first, the more so as the whole extent of the Plica 

 cannot be seen if observed en face; it is only a side view of 

 the pupil that shows it completely. Some measured plicae 

 showed a breadth of 5 — 5^ m. m., while the real — Caruncula 

 lacrimalis was not more than 2 m. m. in breadth. The plica 

 is so considerable that it really may be considered as a 

 characteristic mark of the race (9). 



With very many " pur sang" Orang Sakai and Orang 

 Semang 1 found, that the upper edge of the upper eyelid 

 terminates is a wrinkle of the skin, (Plate II figure 4;) This 

 is a peculiarity which prevails in the Mongolian Eace, there 



9 This observation induced me to go through the note which I had made 

 npon the Papuan race in New Guinea. I found there also several remarks 

 upon the great and remarkable breadth of the Palpebra tertia. A broad 

 Palpebra tertia is not however a peculiarity of the Melanesian race ; it is to 

 be observed also among the Chinese, though by no means to the same extent. 

 Among Europeans too the breadth of the Plica varies very considerably. 



