tNHAUITJNG THK MALAYAN 1*KNIN!SULA. 2h 



iiiaij\ good loukriig young men. 1 liave not 

 met any ot llicni with corporeal defects; 

 and tlie floridness and the regularity of tlie 

 features in a few old persons were a wiluess 

 lliat iheir life liad been passed without in- 

 nruiity as well as williout anxious care. 

 The luen are heaitliy, but generally Hiin; 

 ilie women on the contrary are plump, and 

 though lieaUliy too arc not particularly 

 stout. 



Tlie third class of Jakuns, those of t fie 

 Meuangkabaw slates, aie very short; their 

 physiognomy is low , and seems tn announce 

 great sim]dicity; mau\ of Iheni are ii<;ly 

 and badly made, indicating a degenerated 

 race; they have the inferior part of tlie nose 

 depressed, tliougli not flat; and the two 

 wrinkles so remarkable in many Malays, 

 chiefly of low l>irth, cutting the forehead 

 perpendicularly and terminating on the 

 both sides ol the nose. Their mouth is pretty 

 well: fnr. ifHHigli their lips projecl a lilth-. 



