24f> PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ANT* COXSTITT'TIOY, 
it is in the length and in the developemejnt of the bones that the ana¬ 
logy is the most perfect. I much desire to examine this fact by 
anatomical comparison ; but the difficulty to find subjects, and vari¬ 
ous peculiar reasons have until now prevented me. I will observe 
nevertheless that though this is the case as respects the greater part 
of them, it is not without its exceptions ; but as we examine here 
the conformation of a people, we must take that of the great bulk of 
its individuals, and consider that of the others, as exceptive occur¬ 
rences, although pretty numerous. I will remark too that many of 
these Jakuns differ from the indo-Portuguese of Malacca in the 
frizzled look of the hair. 
The Jakuns of Johore* are a fine race of men *, many of them are 
taller than those of Malacca ;the face also expressive and well charac¬ 
terized, and the expression of the eyes in many of them is a little se¬ 
vere ; I have already observed that their nose does not recede at the 
upper part, neither is it so flat or so broad at its base, as this fea¬ 
ture in the Chinese, Cochin-Chincse and pure Malay. I have found 
several of them with hawked or aquiline noses which put me in mind 
of the faces I have seen in Europe, so were thus amongst others, 
two sons of a great Panghulu Batin who lives at the extremity of 
the Johore river. I remarked also some beautiful children and ma¬ 
ny good looking young men. I have not met any of them with cor¬ 
poreal defects; and the floridness and the regularity of the features 
in a few old persons were a witness that their life had been passed 
without infirmity as well as without anxious care. The men are 
healthy, but generally thin ; the women on the contrary are plump, 
and though healthy too are not particularly stout. 
The third class of Jakuns, those of the Menangkabau states, are 
very short, their physiognomy is low, and seems to announce great 
simplicity ; many of them are ugly and badly made indicating a dege¬ 
nerated race; they have the inferior part of the nose depressed though 
not flat; and the two wrinkles so remarkable in many Malays chief¬ 
ly of low birth, cutting the forehead perpendicularly and terminating 
* Seevol. i. p. 249* 
