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Their lanky hair is alone sufficient to throw strong 
doubts on any such theory. Furthermore, their broad 
noses are even more un-Caucasian than un-Mongoloid; 
for, whereas the Mongoloid in general is medium-nosed, 
the Caucasian is distinctively narrow-nosed. ‘There is 
also nothing specifically Negroid in the Indonesian, 
since his nose in spite of its breadth lacks the character- 
istic flat shape of the Negro organ. A connection with 
an Australian type has been thought of; but here also 
there is little if anything positive in favor of such a 
view. 
On the whole then, the status of the Indonesian sub- 
race or variety is best summed up by its recognition as 
a Mongoloid type presenting fewer specific Mongoloid 
features than the Malayan type. On the hypothesis 
that the Indonesian was the earlier and the Malayan 
the later comer of the two sets of brown peoples, this 
relation is very much what might be expected. 
As to the regions in which these two types originated 
and took their present form, and the period at which 
they began to swarm out from these ancestral homes, 
nothing is known. Even conjecture would be idle 
except for the supposition, which follows rather ob-- 
viously from their general geographic position, that they 
are both likely to have had their source in southeastern 
Asia. 
The Principal Nationalities: Christian. The 
local diversity of the Filipinos among themselves is 
rather remarkable, and argues that the past history of 
most groups has consisted of a long-continued occupation 
of the same region under conditions of limited intercourse 
with the outside world, broken now and then by spas- 
modic movements.. More than thirty nationalities 
must be distinguished in the islands, in addition to the 
scattered bands of Negritos and more or less Negritoid 
