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approximating in complexion to the yellow hue of the 
Malays, does not give them any resemblance to the copper- 
coloured Indians of America. 
With respect to the quality of the hair, there are two 
divisions also—the Tsotra, (tso-bolo,) straight, and the 
Ngita, curly, or rather, frizzly. These have also inter¬ 
mixed ; and the same remark applies here as to colour— 
the frizzly has become almost straight in some cases, and 
the straight almost frizzly. 
The above two distinctions of colour and hair do not, 
however, make two separate classes, but rather four; for 
there are:—1. olive-coloured natives having straight hair ; 
and, 2. olive-coloured natives with curly or frizzly hair: 
of this class the accompanying wood-cut of one of the 
members of the late embassy to Europe is given as an illus- 
