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in the extreme and completely savage. Their hair seemed never 

 to have been combed or cleaned ; it was long, bushy and matted, 

 hanging about their shoulders and shading their faces in a very 

 luxuriant and disgusting manner ; nor were their beards less 

 neglected," Sir Emerson Tennent describes their children as 

 unsightly objects, entirely naked, with misshapen joints, huge 

 heads and protuberant stomachs, and says of their women that 

 they were the most repulsive specimens of humanity he had 

 ever seen in any country. The men, he says, also presented the 

 same characteristics of wretchedness and dejection. He speaks 

 of their projecting mouths, flattened noses and stunted stature. 

 Of several measured by Mr, Bailey, the tallest, who towered 

 above his fellows, was only 5 feet 3 inches in height ; and the 

 smallest 4 feet 1 inch : and he concludes the average height of 

 the men to range from 4 feet 6 to 5 feet 1, and of the women 

 from 4 feet 4 to 4 feet 8. Observers present no facts which 

 indicate disproportionate or imperfect developement of the 

 separate members of the body. Only Mr. Hartshorne asserts 

 that they have short thumbs and sharp-pointed elbows. The 

 descriptions we have of them are sufficient to show us that the 

 Veddas are a dark, but not actually black race ; and not woolly 

 haired like the Negro ; and that they are a very small, not to say 

 dwarfish race. 



As to their [features, Bailey says that these are, on the 

 whole, tolerably regular. He, like Sir Emerson Tennent and 

 Hartshorne, speaks of the flatness of the nose, and of the lips 

 as somewhat thick. A woodcut prepared from a drawing made 

 from a photograph of a group of six Veddas, who were presented 

 to the Prince of Wales, shews plainly the growth of the hair ; 

 the noses comparatively short, broad at the end and flattened ; — 

 the eyes apparently deep-set ; the lips of the younger persons 

 full and bulging ; and this gives a far more vivid idea of the people 

 than any description could furnish. One only of the men has 

 anything like a beard. We see the little spear worn by the men, 

 the great bows they carry, the arrows with the leaf-like points, 

 and, finally, the iron axe stuck in the girdle. 



If we add to the foregoing descriptions of their features the 

 short thumbs and sharp-pointed elbows, referred to by Mr. 

 Hartshorne, there are indications enough to distinguish the 



