146 BOKKEO. 
sent from Macassar for tlie purpose. Captain Brownrigg 
was so kind as to entertain me frequently with accounts 
of the people among whom lie tad been thrown, and who 
had not previously been \Tisited by Europeans- They 
appeared to me to dififer in no essential particular fi*om 
the other coast tribes of Borneo, except in being rather 
more advanced, as was evident, indeed, from the hos- 
pitable reception he met with among them; bat ray 
attention having been aroused by a repeated mention of 
** darkies'' as forming part of the population, I was 
induced to make some inquiries, when I found that he 
alluded to an inland tribe that only occasionally visited 
Gunung Thabor, and who were a shoi't, but stoutly built, 
people, perfectly black, and with hair so short and curly, 
that the head appeared to be covered with little knobs. 
This perfectly agrees with the general appearance of 
the hair of the Papuans who keep the head shorn; 
and I have not the slightest doubt that they were 
unmixed Papuans. He also described the skins of the 
breast and shoulders as displaying many mised scarifi- 
cations, apparently similar to those of some New Guinea 
tribes, but which do not appear to be common among 
the mountain Papuans. On one occasion, a party of 
seventeen men, chiefly young and middle aged, visited the 
settlement for the express piu^ose of seeing the Euro- 
peans- They appeared to live on very friendly tenns with 
the people of Gunung Thabor, from whom they obtained 
supplies of axes and chopping-knives, giving the produce 
of the forests in exchange. 
It should be mentioned that this was Captain Brown- 
rigg's first visit to the Archipelago, and he could scarcely 
