LANGUAGES AND RACES. 1 
wholly occupied by the Malay race, but I have seen no account of 
their personal appearance. 
We find a negro race next, in the mountain-chain which runs 
through the length of the Malay Peninsula. This is known to the 
* Malays, in some parts, under the name of Samang, and in others of 
Bila. Those people are of a sooty-black complexion, have woolly 
hair, and African features. An adult male, measured by my friend 
General Machines, was found to be only 4 feet 9 inches high. This 
individual was brought from the mountains of Queda. A lad sent 
to myself, while in the administration of Singapore, by the Raja of 
Kalantan, a Malay state on the east coast of the peninsula, agreed in 
complexion, hair, and features, with the description now given. 
The great islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes, are 
without any negro race of inhabitants ; nor is there any record or 
tradition of their ever having existed. In some islands of the Phi¬ 
lippine group, however, they are found in considerable numbers, 
and are well known to the Spaniards under the name of Negritos. 
Zunigas* description of them is, that they are more of a copper co» 
lour than the true African negro, that they have flat noses, soft hair, 
and are of very low stature. The total number of them subject 
to the Spanish rule, in the principal island of Luzon, is about 
3000. 
From all those accounts, I am disposed to conclude, that the Ne¬ 
groes of the Andaman Islands, probably those of the Nicobars, those 
of the Malayan Peninsula, and of the Philippine Islands, are all of 
the same race, which would include all the negroes north of the 
equator. But it must be admitted that this conclusion may not be 
warranted by a better knowledge than we now possess. 
South of the equator, and still within the Malayan Archipelago, 
we find at least two races of negroes on New Guinea and the islets 
adjacent to it. One of these has the Negro features, but not in an 
exaggerated form ; and the hair, instead of growing in woolly tufts, 
is frizzled, long, and bushy, so as to be easily dressed out into the 
huge mop-like form, of which good representations will be found in 
the plates annexed to the voyages of the recent French circuinnayl- 
