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an individual, but on that of a warrior of the tribe, that a 
>ictim is sought in another community ; and the practice 
seems to be rapidly disappearing from amoog the moun- 
tain Papuans, perhaps from it sometimes producing 
a retaliation that has not left a snfi&cient number of 
warriors alive to avenge the death of the slain. 
M. Mallat also notices the apparently uotameable 
nature of Papuans of the Phihppines, and their incessant 
desire to return to the Bavage state, which has often 
rendered attempts to civilize individuals utterly abortive. 
But this feeling appears only to exist when in the ncigh- 
baurhood of their homesj for the cheerfulness, and 
apparent forgetfulness of country, which is displayed by 
the Papuans, whether of the mountains or coasts, who are 
found in a state of slaverj' throughout the southern settle- 
ments of the ArehipelagOj is calculated to arrest the 
attention of those who have had opportunities of observ- 
ing them closely. Indeed the Papuans appear to be 
totally exempt from that " nostalgisj," or home-sickness, 
which prevails among the natives of Austxalia^^ and those 
of E,otti, near Timor, when removed from their own 
eoiintry. This feelmg is so prominent among the latter, 
that a body of six hundred men, who had been impressed 
into the Dutch sernce to act as troops in their Indian 
settlements, became almost extinct in the course of a 
few years, and the lives of the remainder, about forty in 
number, wei-e only saved by their being sent back to their 
own country. 
" The character of the Negritos is untanieable, and it is 
impossible to sunuount their tendency to idleness, 
Pi'ompted by an iiTesistible instinct to return to the place 
