CHAP. XXXtV.J 



THE NATIP-ES OF DOREr, 



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cut features and large aquiline noses. Their colour is a 

 deep brown, often approaching closely to black, and thy 

 fine mop-like heads of frizzly hair appear to be mom 

 comiuQU than elsewhere, and are considered a gr&it orna- 

 ment, a loog six-prouged bamboo fork being kept stuck in 

 them to serve the purpose of a comb ; and this is assidu- 

 ously used at idle moments to keep the densely growing 



mass from becoming matted and tangled. The majority 

 have short woolly hair, wluch does not seem capable of 

 an. equally luxuriant development, A grov\i:h of hair some- 

 what similar to this, and almost as abundant, is found 

 among the lialf-breeds between the Indian and N"egro in 

 South America. (Jan this be an indication that the 

 Papuans are a mixed race? 



For the Krdt three days after owr arrival I was fully 

 occupied from morning to night building a house, with the 



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