5SG THE RACES OF MAN [ceap. xt. 



qiuite equalling, the jet-black of some ne.ijjo races. It 

 varies in tint, however, more than that of the Malay, and 

 is sometimes a dusky-brown. The hair is very peculiar, 

 being harsli, dry, and frizzly^ growing in little tufts or 

 curia, which in youth are very short and compact, but 

 afterwards grow out to a considerable length, forming the 

 compact friiszled mop whicli is the Papuans* pride and 

 glory, nie face is adorned with a beard of the same 

 frizzly nature as the hair of the head. The arms, legs, and 

 breast are also more or less clothed with haii of a similar 

 nature. 



In stature the Papuan decidedly surpasses the Malay, 

 And is perhaps equal, or even superior, to the average of 

 Europeans. The legs are long and thin, and the hands aiid 

 feflt larger than in the Malays. The face is somewhat 

 elongated, the forehead fiattisb, 

 the brows very prominent; the 

 nose is large, rather arched and 

 high, the base thick, the nostrils 

 broad, with the aperture hidden, 

 owing to the tip of the nose being 

 elongated ; tlie mouth is large, 

 the lipa thick and protuberant. 

 The face has thus an altogether 

 mure European aspect than in 

 the Malay, owing to the large 

 nose ; and the peculiar form of 

 llns organ, with the more promi- 

 jiLiit brows and the chai'acter of 

 the hair on the head, luce, and 

 body, enable us at a glance to 

 distingiush tlie two races. I have 

 observed that most of these 

 eharactoiistic features are as dis- 

 tinctly visible in children of ten 

 or twelve years old as in adidts, 

 and the pecidiar form of the nose is always shoT>\^i in the 

 figures which they carve for oniauients to their houses, or 

 as charms to w^ear i-ound their necks. 



The nioial characteristics of the l*apnan appear to me to 

 separate him as distinctly from the Malay as do his form 



