TORT BOET. 
having their origin in the island of that name (called 
Long Island in the English clQarts)^ which lies about ten 
(fortj^ English) miles to the east of Dory, In general they 
are small in stature (kletn van gesiaQUe)^ mostly five and 
a quarter J and only a few as much as five and a half feet 
in height. With the exception of a hunchback {em 
geboffchelden), we saw no deformed people, nor any parti- 
cularly stout or lean men. Their colour is dark bro\ra, 
that of some people inclining to black. I saw here two 
Albino children (of the same mother) with white skina, 
approaching to yellow, w^ith some brown spots on the 
back, and with white crisp hair, and blue or green eyes. 
The natives are generally affected with diseases of the 
skin ; with some of them the skin looks as if it was 
covered with scales (ichthyosis). The hair is black and 
crisp. Some of them have it tinted red at the outer ends, 
which, I thiuk^ must be attributed to its being dried by 
the intense heat. They usually wear the bair at the full 
length to which it is inclined to grow, which makes the 
head, when seen from a distance^ appear to be pearly 
twice its real size. In general they bestow little care 
upon it, whereby it has a disorderly appearance, and gives 
them a wild aspect. There are some, however, whose 
hair, either by art or nature, is smooth and even as if it 
bad been clipped. The men wear in their hair a comb, 
consisting of a stick of bamboo, one end of which is 
split into three or four long points, like a fork, while 
the other end is shaped off to a point, and is gene- 
rally carved. This comb is stuck obliquely into the 
hair of the head, and a strip of coloured calico is 
fastened to the upper end, which hangs from it like a 
