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TIMOR. 
he was brought up by the Rev, Mr. Sames (a Dutch 
misaionaryj whose later life has been devoted to the educa- 
tion of the poorer Datives), and was qualified for service 
as a printer, in which he was seeking employment 
when I encountered him. He had the small switive 
figure, restless eye, and short tufted hair, which are the 
chief characteristics of the mountain Papuans ; and I at 
length had an opportunity of ascertaining from personal 
observation that the race still existed in a pure state in 
Timor. The numbers of the pure Papuans cannotj, 
however, be very great, as they arc said to lead a life more 
barbarous than that of the Ahetas of the Philippines ; for 
the price set upon their heads in the slave-market causes 
them to be constantly hunted down by tribes only a httle 
farther advanced than themselves, and in a few years 
their race must become extinct. At present they are 
most numerous on the mountain Alias, which rises near 
the south-east coast of Timor, 
The jyf/asi-Papuan tribes which have adopted settled 
habits, also reside in the uplands of the same part of the 
island, whei*e they grow maize and yams, and occasionally 
descend to the coast to barter the wax they obtain in the 
forests with the small traders who come from the Ser- 
watty Islands during the calm period which intervenes 
between the monsoons. Prom these traders I have 
derived my chief information concerning the tribes in the 
southern parts of Timor. They are described as being 
extremely cautious in their transactions witli strangers, 
even with those who have held intercourse with them for 
years ; and probably they have good reason to be so, for 
the great slave mart of the Bughis and Macassar traders, 
