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to be of the same race with the Andamaners; and he also 

 considers them to be of the same stock as the little black people 

 called Negrito in the Philippines,- But he does not think them 

 allied to the Australian or Papuan races as Mr. Logan, a 

 writer of some note, does, calling them " Draviro Australians " 

 (Journal of the Indian Archipelago p.p. 156. 157). The Pere 

 B'ourieu who observes of the Mcutras, a wild tribe in the 

 Malay Peninsula akin to the Semangs. that they a»e bathed 

 for the first time when they are dead, observes also that after 

 they are put into the grave either sitting, standing, or 

 reclining, they are not visited after the first three days, during 

 which time a tire is kept burning at the grave. If the Raja 

 of Kedah is a Mahomedan, he would not be likely to have 

 any very strong scruples as to causing a skeleton interred in a 

 non-Mussel man fashion to be disinterred. Probably but little 

 disinterment would be necessary 3 as very little earth would be 

 put upon the dead body. 



Professor cannot conclude without expressing his 



sense of the obligation which the cultivators of science owe to 

 Lieut.- Grovernor for his exertions. 



January 5, 1870. 



There was some delay in getting the Seraang's skeleton 

 from the " Diomed," but it has come to hand quite safely, as 

 I ought to have written a fortnight or more ago to thank you 

 for your trouble and the interest you hive taken in the matter. 



The skeleton is very valuable, though very different from 

 what I had expected. 1 find the Semangs are a small race 

 with narrow, large heads; from the character of the bones I 

 should suppose they live mainly on flesh food, the bones being 

 hard and bright. The man must have been an old one, which 

 is a comparatively rare thing to find among savages ; at least 

 most of the savage skulls that come into my hands are skulls 

 of young men ; and I imagine also from ray own experience of 

 such people whilst living, that they are old at ages when we 

 are young. I shall work up all that has been written iu the 

 Transactions of your Indian Societies (Logan's and FT. B. 

 Hodgson's names are familiar to me as Editors or Contributors) 

 and I shall make out all that the bones themselves have to 

 teach me, and conbine my information. Whatever I write I 

 will see that you have. I shall send you shortly a paper I 

 have been writing on the excavations of our own savage fore- 

 fathers here in England, which I hope you may find more or 

 less interesting". 



