INTRODITCTION OF CHBISTlANITy. Ill 
motley inhabitants would prove deeply interesting to 
ethnogra]>liical science. If, as there is much reason to 
suspect, the Arruans were originally of the same race with 
the inhabitants of the opposite coast of New Guinea, the 
course of improvement which has led to their becoming 
one of the best-conducted tribes of the Indian Archi- 
pelago might here be detected ; and philanthropists would 
have data on which to act in reclaiming a race, which 
becomes more interesting from the utter barbarism in 
which some of its members are steeped. 
