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several instances where the jaws were prominent the lower part of 
the face was broadest. In contrast with these others were seen with 
oval faces, well cut and slightly aquiline though low noses, and neat 
chins, and the whole face free from that over abundance of flesh with 
which many others are furnished. The outer extremity of the eye¬ 
brows was frequently directed upwards in a greater degree than I 
have observed in Malays. Viewed in profile the jawbones are seen to 
advance more than in the Malays in general, so that the chin, lips and 
extremity of the nose are in one line, approaching to vertical, wliich 
forms an obtuse angle with that on which the nose and forehead are 
placed. The anteriour extension of the jaws on the one hand, when 
the face is viewed from the side, and the outward projection of the 
lower jaw combined with the marked lateral compression of the fore¬ 
head, on the other hand, when the face is viewed from the front, 
would appear to give to the head a place intermediate between the 
prognathous aud lozenge shaped or pyramidal forms. Physically they 
may be considered as a link between the negro and brown races of the 
Archipelago. The general expression of the face denotes good na¬ 
ture, mildness, innocence, content, want of mental energy, and re¬ 
flectiveness, aud a predommence of the senses over the intellect. 
The complexion is generally similar to that of the Malay, but 
amongst the varieties which it exhibits I noticed several who were 
much fairer than any Malays. The hair is black and in general 
smooth and lank, but in some it is frizzled, and in all somewhat 
more dry and tangled than in the Malay, arising from the little oil 
which they use. It is worn long or cropped short, as with the 
Malays, according to the taste of the individual. Some old wo¬ 
men had long discontinued the use of oil, and their dry, rusty, un¬ 
kempt locks aiding the effect of their piercing sinister eyes, which al¬ 
most seemed to be touched by insanity, frightened some of my Ma¬ 
lays not a little, and so persuaded were they that the old ladies had 
evil eyes, that they felt greatly relieved when I left the house. 
I met a few individuals whose bodies were completely covered with 
a scaly scurf. The children were often dull, burdened with fat 
and very timid, but many were lively, bold and engaging; and my 
Malay followers every where remarked that in appearance they 
could not be distinguished from Malayan children. One child I 
noticed whose eyes wore an expression of the last degree of fear, 
and whose eyebrows and features generally were as like those of a 
monkey as it is possible for a human faee to be. But this physio-? 
gnomy is also found amongst the Malays. 
