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EASTERN GEOGRAPHY. 



m<Hv suitable designation. It ecrvgi to connect tlietn with ttue 

 hiwn PulxjnrsUiM of the Eastern Fncifie (Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, 

 Ton^ii, Mauri, who rimy bo regarded us th<-ir di«*endnnt&. 



Tin 1 ivla:irn]s of these tvro mm widely- nfv^ml branches of the light* 

 coloured 0<vjinir people Wonit? nmh< mid more evident oecording as more 

 accurate knowh-dg* in .icrumulntod regarding them. Typical Indonesians 

 urn 1 the Ment-iwey islanders, of w-Unm Ynn Rosenberg remarks, that '*aa 

 regards i >liysi' -il Appearance, speech, customs, and usages they eland almost 

 iplite ai^rt. Tln-v Iw.-ir hii.-!j a ibvidni . stamp of .1 IV»{yn» .hijlji trilu', that 

 one feet* fur more inclined to eompnre thorn with thu natives or llif Snath 

 Sea Islands." — Malny Arthipctwta % L p. 189, These, andlhc other tadou- 

 esians are described u of a somewhat light ruddy-brown nail even fair 

 complexion,. v> hh Inn;-' wnvy ur ..urly hair, black or inclining to n brown 

 shade, heard often fairly developed, well-modelled lorno, largu muscular 

 frame, rather above the middle shi.\ dolichocephalic, «r long head, fall, 

 open, and horizontal eyes, high ftin-linid, si might now, unit regular, oval 

 features. Thw description at QACf tspambH lintn from tin; Imv-sizi-d, 

 round-headed, oblique^ ved, lutik hairec), short-nosed, yellow Mongoloid 

 Malays and scins to alalia to them, oh the one hand, to the targ. . brown, 

 eastern PolyncsiatiN, on the after, to tlio wwjuthy or fair and regular- 

 featured western Csucasle peoples. To account for throe resemblances it is 

 only DMMKtty to assume a remote migrnlini) of ihe i^w^ic race to south- 

 eastern Asia, of which evidence* ate not lucking in Camlioja nnd else* 

 where, and n further onward movement, first south to the archipelago, and 

 thence cost l» tin- PaeiJie. Tie- ] in>l ■! i-i 1 1 i* fully diseusw?d in A, II. 

 Kwujo'k Rfintiom of titt Intto-VhiruK ttntl Inkr-tktnaic Jiaec* and 



Neg-rifcoeo.— The Negritoes, thai is b) Spanish, " Lillle Negroes," 



nre w>\\ !■• it i liui-il mniidv t" tit,' rhi)i|i[iirii'-i, :t rid ^v.-n here -urvjs.tr 

 only in tin. 1 five hiryi j j^liiniln of Luzon, Mindoro, Fanny t Nej.Ti)S, 

 and Munlano, numlhering altogether probably nut more (ban 20,000 

 soul, 1 *. They are rolh-ethvly known by the name of Aita, or JTfa, 

 which in Tabula means " black," answering to the Malay JJiiam* 

 Their alliiiilies an- with tin- Snmatig> nf the Malay IVninsuhi, the. 

 Anrlflmanwc Islanders, tlie Karons of New Guinea, and the Endui 

 and Kalan^s r.f Java, with wIkum I h'-y liuv^ in ernintinTi a ilwarti-h 

 wtfttnro, seldom exceeding fmir feet six or seven inehes, n hraehy- 

 cepliafic- or r<aind ^kul] } very nhort friz/ly or woolly liuir, siid to 

 grow in sepamle tufts (?), nhort ntw, thickish lips, and penernffy a 

 Bomewlial ittlntilile Negroid expression. Further exploration may 

 reveal the i-xiVieiire of true Negrittt triW« in Celelies, Jitoht, Timor, 

 utid Bbmep, although it now appear? that none survive in Fnrniiisa, 

 whiTr tlii'ir i.p--iTii'r kind I. u : j I .HJiijH'eteiL De Qimtrel'a^-j litnl- 

 tr.i.-o- of :l Negrito element, in SuUlhern India, on the plopes nf (lie 

 Ilimahiyas and as fnr went o» Stritnn on the Pereo-Argluut fr- «nt it-T. 



