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inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago, and this is, I believe, 
the first time he has published a different opinion. 
As to the wider affinities of these Papuans with other 
peoples of the world, I wish to speak cautiously. But I 
believe they may be remotely classed (together with all the 
other black people of the Southern hemisphere) with the 
tribes of Africa. In all essential respects they appear to be 
remote relatives, and the differences between them may pro- 
bably be accounted for by (1) long isolation; (2) dwelling 
under different conditions in their various localities ; (3) in 
some cases more or less mixture with other races. 
Prof. Flower thinks the resemblance between the Papuans 
and African Negroes “ which appears to strike every one who 
sees them for the first time, is rather superficial, and depend- 
ing much upon colour and the character of the hair.”* But 
Mr. Wallace, in the recent article I have already mentioned, 
says, “ it is impossible not to look upon” these “Eastern 
Negroes” and the Africans “as being really related to each 
other, and as representing an early variation, if not the 
primitive type of mankind, which once spread widely over all 
the tropical portions of the Eastern hemisphere.”! In the 
main, I take Mr. Wallace's view. 
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That the Papuans were the earliest occupants of the various 
places where remnants of the race are now found, and that 
they have, in many places, been partly or wholly overrun and 
displaced by more recent races, I think is unquestionable. 
II. The Sawaiori Race. 
Polynesians, Brown Polynesians, Malay o-Polynesians, and 
M alio r is. 
These people are a large-sized race, their average height 
being about 5 feet 10 inches. They are well-developed in 
proportion to height. Their colour is a brown ; lighter or 
darker, generally, according to the amount of their exposure 
to the sun ; being darker on some of the atolls were the 
people spend much time in fishing, and among fishermen on 
the volcanic islands ; and lighter among women, chiefs, and 
others less exposed than the bulk of the people. Their hair 
is black and straight, but wavy or with a tendency to curl in 
individual examples. They have very little beard. Their 
* Royal Institution Lecture , pp. 37 and 38. 
f Contemporary Review, Feb., 1879, p. 427. 
