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described as being, in stature, from 5 feet 5 to 5 feet 0 inches, with 
persons rather slender than athletic—of a colour less black than the 
African negro, having a facial angle of 66 degrees, and woolly hair, 
with little heard. They were an uglier race than the inhabitants of 
Wagiou, within the Archipelago. 
Cook describes the inhabitants of Malicolo and of the New He¬ 
brides as a very dark-coloured and diminutive race, with longheads, 
flat faces, and monkey countenances ; th eir hair as black, short, and 
curly, but not quite so short and woolly, as that of the African ne¬ 
gro, and their beard as short, crisp, and bushy. He pronounces 
them “ an ape-like people,” and the most ugly and ill-proportioned 
he had encountered in the Pacific; “ quite a different nation from 
any other” he had met with in that sea. 
Cook’s account of Tanna, another of the New Hebrides, makes 
the inhabitants short and slender, but with good features, and agree¬ 
able countenances, having hair crisp and woolly, but longer than 
that of the inhabitants of Malicolo. At first he was disposed to 
think them a mixed race between the latter and the Friendly Islan¬ 
ders, but a little acquaintance convinced him they had “ little affini¬ 
ty with either.” 
The isolated New Caledonia, lying between the 20° of south lati¬ 
tude and the tropic, is inhabited by another race of negroes, plainly 
differing from those already mentioned. Cook describes them a3 a 
strong, robust people, some individuals being found as tall as 6 feet 
4 inches. Their colour is the same as that of the inhabitants of 
Tanna, that is black, but not an ebony black. They had, however, 
“ better features and more agreeable countenances.” “ I observed,” 
says he, “ some who had thick lips, flat noses, and full cheeks, and, 
in some degree, the features and look of a negro.” The hair he 
mentions as very much frizzled, so that, at first, it appeared much 
like that of an African negro, yet was “ nevertheless very different.” 
The hair in fact, appears to be of the same texture as that of some 
of the inhabitants of New Guinea, and was, like that of these, easily 
dressed into a hideous mop, as already described. 
But we have still another race in the inhabitants of the islands of 
