NEW GUINEA. 
this tribe ia very full and complete. " Their stature is of 
the middle size, and they arc ipt particularly strongly 
built. The colour of their skin is a light black, with a 
blucish tinge. The hps are tolerably thick, and the 
nose rather flat. Their appearance is generally sinister 
and always repulsive, which is not a little increased by 
the greasiness of their bodies, and by the ngly and dirty 
practice of besmearing the forehead^ and the face under 
the nose and round the chin, with red clay or mud. 
Their features bear a considerable resemblance to those 
of the Ai'abiaos {Arai^ieren).* Nearly all of them had 
the lobe of the ear bored, and the stit was generally half 
a finger long. "IVliether this hole is enlarged by the 
weight of the ring, which I shall have to notice presently, 
or ia ent to this size in the first imtance, I did not 
ascertain. 
"The hair of the head ia crisp {kort gekroesd) like 
that of African negroes, and pitch-black in colour ; one of 
the men wore it plaited as a tail, like those of the Chinese, 
and hanging down from the back of the head in the same 
manner. Some of them wore the hair in a small trcas or 
braid at the crown of the head i while others again wore 
rushes round about the occiput, which were plaited firmly 
into the hair. They allow the hair of the beard and 
whiskers to grow ; the former is crisp like that of the 
head. 
The men went entirely naked, with the exception of 
♦ The term "Arabicren" is comnioniy used by the Dutch to 
indicate Dcgroca. aud It has been probablj appUed in this sense on 
the present occasion. — G. W, E. 
