ETHNOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE MALAY PENINSULA. 217 



II. 



MIXED MELANO— MALAYAN TRIBES EST THE 

 INTERIOR OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



The Orang Utan and the Orang Ratet of Johor (19). — 

 Although the Orang Utan of Johor are a very mixed 

 race shewing- no t a little of the Malay type, yet there are 

 exceptions, — reversions to the primitive type — which induced 

 me in the course of my first excursion in the Peninsula, when 

 I knew nothing positively about the existence of an unmixed 

 Melanesian race, to suppose that there had been in former 

 times an admixture of Melanesian blood in the Orang Utan. 

 During my second journey I several times met with indi- 

 viduals representing such reversion on the mountains and 

 by the river Indau (like those wdio were represented in the 

 supplement to my short notice of that excursion) (20 J. 



In addition to their Physiognomy, the character of ihe 

 hair of some of them, and the great variability in the form 

 of the skull, the remains of the earlier language, and the 

 great resemblance between their dialects and those of the 

 unmixed Orang Sakai (21) are sufficient to remove all doubt 

 respecting the origin of the Orang Utan. 



Anthropological Notes. — Height. In consequence of bad 

 and insufficient food, and a mode of living which is miserable 

 in all respects some Orang Utan may b^ found of remarkably 

 small size. Yet this cannot he considered as characteristic 

 of the whole race, as some authors would have it. The 

 height of the Orang Utan varies more, and the structure 

 of their bodies is weaker than is the case with the Orang 

 Sakai. The women especially are strikingly short. Their 

 height varied ( in 80 measurements) thus ; 

 Men ... 1,390 M. M. ... 1,560 M. M. 



Women ... 1,305 „ ... 1,430 „ (22). 



Skull. — As with their height so also the Index of breadth 

 varies among the Orang Utan between wider limits than 



19. Vide my first Communication. Ethnologisohe Excursion in johor : 

 Natuurk. Tijdschrift, Dcel XXXV, page 250. 



20. Milduho Maclay — An Ethnological Excursion in Johore. The Journal 

 of Eastern Asia, Vol. I. No. 1. 1S75 page 94 with three portraits. 



21. Vide my two letters on the dialects of the Melanesian tribes in the 

 Malay Peninsida to S. Ex. Otto Bchtlingk Tijdschr. yogi- — Taal — Land — en 

 Volkenkunde 1876. 



22. I measured two women, already the mothers of several Children who 

 were less than 1,310 M. M. 



