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marriage with the Tamils, have lost many distinctive features 

 of their primitive state. "Two of the women," he says, 

 "were very gentle in appearance, and one is reported to have 

 been decidedly pretty ; the two men were described as small 

 and rather ape-like." To these descriptions the photographs 

 aforementioned correspond pretty well. 



Though these may not be examples of the purely savage 

 Veddds, I have nevertheless, in lack of any other represen- 

 tations, asked Mr. Mtitzel to make a drawing of two men 

 and one woman, from which a woodcut ; ^has been prepared. 

 It shows plainly the growth of the hair ; the noses com- 

 paratively short, broad at the end, and flattened ; the eyes 

 apparently deep-set, and the lips of the younger persons full 

 and bulging ; so that it 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 apron 

 worn by the men, the great bows they carry, the arrows with 

 the leaf -shaped points, and finally the iron axe stuck in the 

 girdle. 



As regards the hair, it is comparatively long with all the 

 six persons, but evidently put into some shape by the help 

 of a comb. The women wear their smooth, slightly waving 

 hair parted in the middle, and so does one of the men, 

 who certainly exhibits his chevulure in a somewhat dis- 

 ordered condition. Two of the men have curly hair, which 

 forms a bush about the head, sticking out widely and falling 

 down upon the neck, exactly corresponding to all the known 

 descriptions of them. This makes the head appear very large, 

 especially in proportion to the lean body and limbs* But 

 it must here be particularly remarked that this curly hair is 

 never in small, tight rolls as among the Negritos, and the 

 bush of hair does not in the slightest degree approach 

 the peruke, such as is generally worn by the Viti people, 

 or the Abyssinian tribes ; on the contrary, the curly 

 hair is very long, and falls down pretty low upon the 



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