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A NATUJULIST'S WANDEBINOS 



with light brown patches ; the hair is straight and thin, 

 and its natural colour redJish or of a dark chestnut brown. 

 There are also Ibimd in Timor all intermediate shades of the 

 akin, from dark yellow to black or chocolate brown, and the 

 liair from red and straight to the short and woolly (in another 

 place, ' short-tufted ') hair of the Papiias." As in Timor-laut, 

 I believe we have in Timor a mixture of Malay represented 

 perhaps in such faces as Figs. 1 and 2, Papuan (Pig. B, p. 

 466), and Polynesian (Fig. 4, p. 4G6) races. The aet'om{mny- 

 ing figures, sketched from one kingdom, will show this mixture 

 better than volumes of description ; they are the jwrtraits of 



WIQ. 3. 



ITATITBS OF BIBlfC^tf. 



FIG. 4. 



l>eople taken at random from those constantly about me in 

 Bibi^upu. The colour of skin, form of heml, fe4itures of face, 

 oharaeter and distribution of hair I met with in every variety 

 and tunuunt of comminglement. 



In tlie eastern extremity of the island the people, I am 

 told, resemble Malays, and they speak the Malay language. 

 Among the Fatumatubia Mountains — I have it on the, as I 

 believe, escellent authority of one of the commandants of the 

 district — lives a race of dwarfish people, speaking a " language 

 of their own. TEeir dwarfishness consists not so much in the 

 dimenslong of their bodies, as in the shortness of their limbs 

 which are thick and stroitg. They live among the rocks, are 

 great robbers and mnoh detested. The men wear only the 



