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OS THB MALAYAN AN» POLYNESIAN 
may, 1 think, be divided into three groups—men of brown complex¬ 
ion, with lank hair; men of sooty complexion, with woolly hair ; and 
men of brown complexion, with frizzled hair. Each of these, again, 
consists of several subdivisions. 
Beginning with the first group, the most remarkable race in it is 
what may be called the Malay. The prevailing complexion is here, 
a light brown, with a yellow tinge ; the hair is lank, long, coarse, 
abundant on the head, and defective on every other part of the body ; 
the nose is short and small, but never flat; the mouth is large ; the 
lips thin; the cheek-bones high. The person is squat, and the ave¬ 
rage stature does not exceed 5 feet 3 or 4 inches. 
This is the only race, within the bounds described, that has exhi¬ 
bited a considerable intellectual development. It has, for ages, pos¬ 
sessed the knowledge of letters, worked the useful metals, and do¬ 
mesticated useful animals. Judging by the evidence of language, 
these arts are of native growth, and not borrowed from strangers. 
All the inhabitants of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Lom¬ 
bok, and Sumbawa, are of this race, as are most of those of the 
Malayan Peninsula, and of the Philippine Islands. 
East of Celebes and Sumbawa, and lying between these and New 
Guinea, there is a second division of men of brown complexion and 
lank hair, constituting, probably, a distinct race. The stature is the 
same as in the last, but the complexion is darker, the features gene¬ 
rally coarser, the lips thicker, and the hair often buckling or even 
frizzling, so as to give them an appearance of being an intermediate 
race between the lank and woolly haired families. The inhabitants 
of Flores, Gilolo, Timur, the Moluccas, and several smaller islands, 
would seem to belong to this race, who, although they have made 
considerable progress in the arts, have never invented the use of let¬ 
ters. The inhabitants of Gueby, an island lying between Gilolo and 
New Guinea, may be taken as a fair example, M. Freyeinet des¬ 
cribes them as being of a dark olive complexion, with flat noses, pro¬ 
jecting lips, and a facial angle of seventy-seven degrees, which is 
from ten to twelve degrees higher than that of the oriental negro of 
the same neighbourhood. 
