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TIMOR. 
colour and short tufted hair of the mountain Papuan, is 
to be found in Timor. 
The latter variety of people, however, alone belongs to 
the present division of the subject, as the other tribes must 
necessarily be classed with the bro^vn- coloured races. 
The inhabitants of the south-western part of Timor, in 
the neighbourhood of Coepang, arc an exceedingly dark, 
coarse-haired people ; and travellera have great difficulty 
in coming to a conclusion as to whether they belong to 
Malayan or Papuan races, so equally balanced are their 
characteristics. The anonymous author of an excellent 
" Account of Timor^ Rotti, Savu, Solor, &c.," in Moor's 
" Notices of the Indian Archipelago,'' seems to have 
fallen into this state of perplexity ; and as his observations 
are evidently the result of long experience at Coepang and 
its neighbourhood, I will give a few short extracts which 
bear upon the point,* *'The natives ai-e generally of a 
very dark colour, witli frizzled, bushy hair; but less 
inclining to the Papuans than the natives of Ende (on 
the island of Flores). They are below the middle size, 
and rather slight m figure. In countenance they more 
♦ I have been imablc to discover who was the autlior of this 
ea3ay, which occupies seven closely-prmted quarto piigcs ; but 1 
suspect it mast have been Mr. Frauds, a native of Madras, who 
entered the service of the Dutch Goverainent on the restoration of 
Java, and was at one tinie Assistaat^Resident of Coepang, I 
have never had occasion to refer to the essay without expe- 
riencing a feeling of admiration at the extent, as well as ac- 
curacy, of the information which is given in so smdl a space, — 
