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ON THE MALAYAN AND POLYNESIAN 
gators. The stature appears to be about the ordinary one of the 
Malayan race. 
Sir Stamford Raffles brought to England a lad of ten years of age, 
a native of New Guinea, of the woolly-haired race, of which there is 
a good representation in the second volume of his History of Java. 
The late Sir Everard Home described this individual as follows:—< 
“ The Papuan differs from the African negro in the following parti¬ 
culars : His skin is of a lighter colour. The woolly hair grows in 
small tufts, and each hair has a spiral twist. The forehead rises 
higher, and the hindhead is not so much cut off. The nose projects 
more from the face. The upper lip is longer and more prominent. 
The lower lip projects forward from the lower jaw to such an ex¬ 
tent that the chin forms no part of the face, the lower part of which 
is formed by the mouth. The buttocks are so much lower than in 
the Negro, as to form a striking mark of distinction, but the calf of 
the leg is as high as in the Negro. 5 ** 
Both races appear to exist in the island of Wagiou, lying imme¬ 
diately at the north-west end of New Guinea, and most probably 
there has been here, some intermixture of them. M. Duperry, in 
the voyage of the Coquille, gives the following description of the in¬ 
habitants of this island :—“ They are of slender and delicate person, 
and generally small. Of twenty individuals measured, one only was 
fouud to be as much as 5 feet 6 inches high. The average gave 
only 5 feet 4 inches. In complexion they were less black than the 
inhabitants of New Ireland, and their features were more regular 
and agreeable. The facial angle was from 63° to 69°. In some 
the hair was woolly, like that of the African negro *, in some it was 
lank; and in others intermediate between the two.” 
After passing New Guinea, we find all the islands lying east of it 
and of New Holland, up to 170° of east longitude, and from the 
equator to the tropic of Capricorn, inhabited by men of the Negro 
stamp, and, as far as they are known, differing so much from each 
other as to seem to constitute distinct races. 
In the voyage of the Coquille, the inhabitants of New Ireland are 
* History of Java, by Sir Stamford Raffles, yol. 
