THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, 



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"Tii 1 1 in ;my e.i.-c their survivnl ;it -It wiu.-tv m] ami cd points ;i- lite 

 Adamnns, tint Pliilippintf, and New Guinea seems to justify the 

 C'liiutiLiiily-rcceiVfd opinion that they arc the scattered fragments of 

 an aboriginal dwarfish Negro race, - formerly diffused over the Eastern 

 Archipelago and adjacent Asiatic seaboard. EeFore the total hiib- 

 ^ideme of the lemurim continent, their range may have even 

 extended t>> -Africa, wherj ilwurti-di Negroid peoples, such a« the 

 Akks-, ( H-i.n-_r.ix, .mil ]U;.>[i1ui':i ; 1 1 — ■ ■ .-1:11 trun^'lil iJu- >l !.<',< r/-r 



tnt-ttti'fn nf ci primitive black pigmy dement at one time spread over 

 ii great pott of the African nminlaiid, 



Characteristic of tin* ASbUf, a.* of all .Negrito peoples, is an extremely 

 low stage of culture, which has never advanced l»cyond the hunting and 

 fishing state. They have no fated nlwiies. or any "dwellings beyooq frail 

 structures of branches and brushwood ; their weapons are the" b»w and 

 pofaoned anw ; their food the products of the chase, roots, berries, itnd 

 Vttmin \ their costume necklets and armlets of beads and sheik, 'Where 

 unuireeted hy Malay influences* thair speech jipjMMtta to l»c extremely mde 

 and Undeveloped, broken into ilk mamy mutually uninluttigilib- duiteela as 

 there are trills, ami in. .i|. ii.U; ,if - --\irj. any abslnii-l idea**. lUit llie 

 only Negrito language of wln\-h wo nave am* adequate knowledge is this 

 Andaman i-m 1 , which law been carefully studied by Mr, Man, KcliiHoua 

 notions are restricted to n dread of the purroimdiiig spirits, whii-U are 

 endowed with htiman firul'ii-H, ilnn^li more powerful than ordinary 

 mortals, They lurk in the recesses of the hills, ami Hit about in the gloomy 

 forests, shaking thin ground when angry, enuring volcanic out I m r.-ts, and 

 bringing down the lightning from heaven. Of an after life there is no 

 thought, of the pa*i no knowli-dgs, all care being absorbed in the imme- 

 diate present, 



Tho Papuans.— The paraHftliMn above suggested between the 

 African and Oceanic Negri tm-s applies with even Renter force to the 

 African and Oceanic Negroes. The latter, familiarly known as 

 Papuans, from the Malay pttfiihitth = frizzled, in reference h) their 

 characteristic 41 mop-heads," an? es*enii:illy a negro ruce, win we diiFii- 

 eion eastwards to the. Pacific can also be best explained hy the theory 

 of a Lenutrian continent, nr nt least a chain of Lemurmii (sfrndfl 

 Mreleliing a-To^ the Indian Ocean down to late tertiary lime.s, The 

 diiiiip|>earanru t>f the*e lauds except at the two extremities Madagascar 

 un-l (Yli"bc:s ncce-v-arily broke up the Negro family into two great 

 sections, end the separation took place At a sufficient I v remote epoch 

 to account fur 1he comparatively sdight subsequent divergence nf the 

 Western and Eastern types. This is perceptible chiefly in the nose 

 and mouth, which in the African have mostly retained the primitive 

 negro i humcterifitics, but in the Papuan have become somewhat more 

 shapely and morn? conformable to a higher standard of physical 



