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metatis in Java, but Hrabmina in Bali and Lfjmbock. The 

 Biigis are the inhabitants of the greater partes of Celebes, 

 and there seems to ha an allied people in Sumbavva. Tliey 

 speak theBngis and Maca^ssar languages, %vith dialects, and 

 Jiave two different native characters in which they write 

 these. They are all Mahometiins. The iburtti great race 

 is that of tlie Tagalas in the Philippine Islands^ about 

 %vhoin, as I did not visit those Islands, I shall say 

 little. Many of tliera are now Christians, and speak 

 Spanish as well as their native tongue, the Tagala. The 

 Mokic can-Malays, wlio inhabit chiefly Ternate, Tidore, 

 Batchian, ami Aniboyna, may be held to form a fifth 

 division of semi-civilized Malays. They are all Maho- 

 metans, bat they speak a variety of curious langnages, 

 which seem compounded of Bngis and Javanese, with the 

 laii^^nages of the salvage tribes of the Moluccas. 



The savage Malays are the Dyaks of Borneo; the 

 Battaks and other wild tribes of SiiDiatra ; the Jakuns of 

 the Malay Peninsula ; the aborigines of Northern Celebes, 

 of the Sula island, and of part of Bonru. 



The colour of all these varied tribes is a light reddish 

 brawn, with more or less of an olive tinge, not varying in 

 any important degree over an extent of country as lai'ge as 

 all Southern Europe. The hair is equally constant, being 

 invariably black and straight, and of a rather coarse tex- 

 ture, so that any lighter tint, or any wave or curl in it, 

 is an alniost certain proof of the admixture of some foreign 

 blood. The face is nearly destitute of beard, and tbe 

 breast and iimbs are free from hair. The stature ia 

 tolembly equal, and is always considerably below that of 

 the average European ; the body is robust, the breast well 

 developed, the feet small, thick, and short, the hands small 

 and rather delicate. The face is a little broad, and in- 

 clined to be flat ; the forehead is rather rounded, tlie brows 

 low, the eyes black and very slightly oblique ; the nose is 

 rather small, not promineiit, but stniight and wcli-shaped, 

 the apex a little rounded, the nostrils broad and slightly 

 exjiosed ; the cheek-bones are rather prominent, the mouth 

 large, the lips broad and well cut, but not protruding, the 

 chin round and well-formed. 



In this description there seems little to object to on the 



