15B 
INDO-CHINBSB PBNINSULA. 
through Pegn and Arracan, until it joins the great range 
of Central India, no traces of Papuans have been met 
with north of Kcdah. Perhaps an affinity will be found 
in the Goandsj and some other of the wilder tribea of 
Hindoostan, but this race belongs to another geogra- 
phical division of the subject under review. 
Several intelligent natives of Anam or Cochin-China, 
with whom the wi'iter has had opportunities of conversing, 
assured him that woolly-haired tribes still existed in the 
mountain range which traverses the eastern side of the 
Indo-Chinese Peninsula, and the statement will form an 
interesting subject of inquiry to any traveller who may 
visit that hitherto little known region. The moat recent 
writer on Coch in-China, Bishop Le FevrCj who describes 
that country in the first volume of the " Journal of the 
Indian Ai'cbipelago," states that : *' TTici-e are on the 
mountainsj which divide Cochin-China from Laos^ many 
wUd tribes.] some of whom are subject to the King 
hlaek glossy flppeaianco ' as the Sinumg- from Kidali whom he aaw^ 
and the two Andaniaiii, (Jour. Imd. Areh, vol. iv, p. 427.) The 
hair is spiral, not woo%, and gro\rs tluckly on the head in tufte. 
They liAve tliick moustaches, tlie growth being much stronger than 
the Malaj race. The head is neither Mongolian nor Negro of the 
Gtunea type. It is Papim-Tamulian. The expression of the face is 
mild, siniple, and stupid. The voice is soft, Iovf, nasal, and hollow, 
or cerebral. A Une of tatooing extends from the forehead to the 
cheek hones. The adjacent Binoa also tatoo. The practice is 
Indian (Konds, higher Abor trilies, &e.), Ultraindi&n aud Asianesian. 
The right ear is pierced, the oriJice being large, but they do not 
piiatie the scptun^ of the nose Eke one of the adjacent Buina tribes of 
Perak, and majiy of the Asianesian Papuas. The hair is cropped, 
save a tmg or fringe rouud the forehead." 
