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the tij> being martetlly puiiited; the other form in which the 

 dorsum is liighor between the eyes, ita stmiiuLt, uiul aometiiiies 

 arched, aud the tip pointed, depi-essed, and incurved to Idrm a 

 thick tat septum. In this form the uostrilii are almost concealed, 

 and the ahr nasi m uch in fluted. En face both dorsa are straigh t, 

 the first form exhibiting the nostrils fully aud the septum ; the 

 secund form with the dorsum cuinprea^nl slightly in the middle, 

 the nostrils scarcely seen, an«lthe ahv nasi inflated. The nppcr 

 lip is proguathua ; the lower somewhat retreating or orthogna- 

 tlius. The teeth of the upper jaw overhip those of the lower 

 jaw, bnt this is not invariable, many of both sexes having tho 

 teeth meeting evenly. From the malar regiun the face rapidly 

 converges to the small, non-protruding, round, and rather well- 

 shaped chin. The ears are small, bnt a good dml disfigured 

 by the large irregularly InyTed holes and slits made in the 

 lobe, while the helix and scaphoid tassa arc distorted by a 

 series of smaller holes in which the earrings graduate from 

 above downwiirds, from small to greater. 



From my own observations on the living people, as well as 

 from an examination kindly made for me by Dr. C4arsoti of the 

 crania which I brought home, two very different types can 

 be made out, the brachycephalic and the dolichocephalic, the 

 former greatly predominating. From the differences in colour of 

 the skin, i'Tum the variation seen iu the features and in the 

 character of the hair it is evident that iu the Tenimber Islands 

 we have a distinctly mixed race, consisting of Malayan and 

 Polynesian elements, us well as of the Papuan m fumid iu New 

 Guinea ; in fact, some of their erauia are indistinguishable from 

 specimens obtained near Port Moresby. The Malayan type of 

 nose ilid not always coincide with the presence of straight hair, 

 thongli in some cases they did so markedly. I noted women 

 in Larat with perfectly straight hair, and yet with the Papuan 

 typa of nose and fact? ; and i>thers again in wliom frizzly hair 

 accompanied a nose half Papuan, half Malayan. 



Br J*olynesian I mean the brown race seea in the P^iji aud 

 iSamoan Islands, as distinguished from the sooty black tribes 

 occurring iu Am and New Guinea. This ct>mmiugliug may 

 be the result of many causes, Timor-laut wtis probably one 

 of the last Islands, as 3Ir. Keaue believes, occupied by the 

 Polynesian race iu Malaysia during its eastern migration to 



