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nine years old ; his mother's sister, Inga Nona, sixteen years 

 old ; and his mother's brother, Andre Appu, twenty-one 

 years old. 



Herr Becker had made three families of these. A Nona 

 family, an Appu family, and an Appuhdmi family. Nay, he 

 went a step further, in taking Abuhami for an Arab, or, as 

 they say in Ceylon, for a Moor. I must leave it undeter- 

 mined whether the man was called Appu or Abu. The name 

 sounded to me almost like Appu, and Herr Kotelmann writes 

 it so ("Magazine of Ethnology," 1884, page 165). There 

 was no difference of opinion, however, concerning the family 

 connections of the group. 



For the second group I made choice of two of the tallest 

 and strongest men. Both were Kiiruwe (elephant-drivers) 

 from Kandy, viz., Punchi Ban da, twenty -four years old, and 

 Ukku Banda, twenty-two years old. Herr Becker has given 

 a photograph of the latter. Becker is inclined to suppose a 

 mixture of Malabar blood in these, on account of their size ; 

 but I would refer to my treatise (pages 60-64), where I have 

 quoted the evidence of the best observers, Davy, Cordiner, 

 and Sirr, according to which the Kandyans differ from 

 the rest of the Sinhalese by their greater strength, darker 

 colour of skin, and better growth. Our Kuruwe may, there- 

 fore, be considered as the representatives of the highland 

 type, as the members of the Abu Nona family that of the 

 lowland type. 



In how far these represent the pure type must be left 

 undetermined, in view of the differences of my former 

 craniological examinations, and of the strongly prominent 

 individual peculiarities appearing in the persons before me. 

 The Paris Commission, whom the same difficulty faced, had 

 come to the conclusion that the persons brought to Europe 

 were taken from a very mixed portion of the population, and 

 contained a large mixture of Malabar blood. I shall refer to 

 this again, after I have discussed the principal peculiarities ; 

 but will here observe that I have come to no sure conviction 



