PAPUANS. 
CHAPTEU I. 
GENERAL CHAHACTERISTICS. 
PfCCULIARlTT or THE HA IE — rEATUBSS^ — STATUEB AVD PROPOBTIONS 
—MOSES OF FERSONAt DISFIGUHEMEXT— FHTSICAL AND MENTAL 
CAPACITY — CHARACTER AKD DISPOSITION^ — RESULTS OT FOREIGN 
ll*TEB.COCBSK ON THE WILD TB.IBE8. 
Small tribes of the Papuan race, or^ as they arc some- 
times called. Oriental Negroes, are very ^videly distributed 
amoDg the islands of the Indian Archipelago ; and New 
Guinea, the easternmost of the group, is supposed to be 
exelusively occupied by them. The Papuans have very 
few characteristics in common with the brown-coloured 
races of the Indian Islands^ but their most striking 
peenHarity eonsiats in their frizzled or wool]y hair, 
which docs not spread over the surface of the head, 
as is usual with the negroes of Africa, but grows in 
