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sion is on the whom almost as well defined and strongly 

 contriist{>d, as is the correspondiiig zoologieal division 

 of the /Vi'chipdlago, into aa Indo-Malayau and Aiistro- 

 Halayan region. 



I must briedy explain tlie reasons that have led me 

 to consider thiii division of the Oceanic races to be a true 

 and natiiml one. The Malayan race, as a whole, iin- 

 douhtedly vety closely resembles the East Asian popu- 

 lations, from Siam to Mandchonria. I was much struck 

 with this, when in the island of Bali I sa%v Chinese 

 tmders who had adopted the costume of that country, 

 and who could then hardly be distinguished from Malays ; 

 and, on the other hand, I have seen natives of Java who, 

 as far as physiognomy was concerned, would pass very 

 well for Chinese. Then, a.^ain, we have the most typical 

 of the IMalayan tribes iidiabiting a portion of the Asiatic 

 continent itself, together with those great ip^lands which, 

 possessing the same species of large MammaUa with the 

 adjacent parts of the continent, have in all probability 

 formed a connected portion of Asia during the human 

 period. The iTegritos are, no doubt, quite a distinct race 

 from the Malay; but yet, as some of them inhabit a 

 portion of the continent, and others the Andaman Islands 

 in the Bay of Bengal, they must be considered to have 

 Isa*!, in all probability, an Asiatic nither tlian a Poly- 

 nesian origin. 



Now, turning to the eastern parts of tlie Archipelago, I 

 find, by comparing my own observations with those of the 

 !uost trustworthy travellers and missionaries, that a race 

 identical in all its chief features with the Papuan, is fbimd 

 in all the islands as far east as the Fijis; beyond tins the 

 brown Polynesian race, or some intermediate type, is 

 spread everywhere over the Pacific. The descriptions of 

 these latter often agi'ee exactly with the characters of the 

 brown indigenes of Gdolo and Ceram. 



It is to be especially remarked that the brown and 

 the black Polynesian races closely resemble each other. 

 Their features ai-e almost identical, so that portiuits of a 

 Kew Zealander or Otaheit^n will often serve accurately 

 to represent a Papuan ot Timorese, the darker colour and 

 more frizzly bair of the latter being the only differences. 



