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would express tlicir satisfaction by grins and sliouts, by 

 Tftlliiig (in (,l(.-€k, 01" by a headlong livjip overboard. School- 

 boys on an unexpected holiday, Irishmen at a fair, or mid- 

 shipmen on sliore, would give but a faint idea of the 

 exuberant animal enjoyment of these people. 



Under similar circumstances Malays could not behave as 

 these Papuans did, K they came on board a vessel (after 

 asking permission), not a word would be at tirot spoken, 

 except a few compliments, and only after some time, and 

 very cautiously, would any approach be made to business. 

 One would speak at a time, with a low voice and great 

 deliberation, and the mode of making a bargain would be 

 by quietly refusing all yo\ir ofi'ers, or eveu going away 

 without saying another word about the matter, unless you 

 advanced your price to what they were willing to accept 

 Our crew, many of %vhoni had not made the %'oyage before, 

 seemed quite seandalized at sucli unprecedented bad 

 manners, anit only veiy gradually made any approach to 

 fraterniziitioD with the black fellows. They reminded me 

 of a ])arty of demure and well-behaved childi'en suddenly 

 broken in upon by a lot of wild romping, riotous boys, 

 whoso conduct seems moat extraordinary and very naughty 1 



These mora! features are more striking and 'more con- 

 clusive of absolute diversity than even the physical 

 contrast presented by the two races, though that is suffi- 

 ciently remaikable* The sooty blackness of the skin, the 

 nio|Hlike head of frizzly hair, and, most important of all, 

 the marked form of countenance of quite a different type 

 tVom that of the Malay, arc what we cannot believe to 

 result from mere climatul or other modifying influences on 

 one and the same i-ace. The Malay face is of the Mon- 

 golian type, broad and somewhat flat. The brows are 

 depressed, the mouth wide, but not jirojeeting, and the nose 

 small and well ibrmed but for the gi'eat dilatation of the 

 nostrils. The face is smooth, and raitsly develops tlic trace 

 of a beard ; the hair black, coai-se, and perfectly straight 

 The Papuan, on the other hand, has a face which we may 

 say is compressed and projecting. The brows are pro- 

 tuberant and overhanging, the mouth large and prominent, 

 while the nose is ver)' large, the apex elongated down- 

 waitis, the ridge thick, and the nostrils laiga It is an 



