. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ight hair on the headand with no lack of beard and moustaches. Mr. Earl * has also noticed the great differences exhibited by tin- j plea of the tableland above Dilly. Some of the natives have adull yellow colour; the parts exposed to the sun are c. 466 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS with light brown patches; the hair is straight and thin,and its natural colour reddish or of a dark chestnut are also found in Timor all intermediate shades of theskin, from dark yellow to black o


. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ight hair on the headand with no lack of beard and moustaches. Mr. Earl * has also noticed the great differences exhibited by tin- j plea of the tableland above Dilly. Some of the natives have adull yellow colour; the parts exposed to the sun are c. 466 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS with light brown patches; the hair is straight and thin,and its natural colour reddish or of a dark chestnut are also found in Timor all intermediate shades of theskin, from dark yellow to black or chocolate brown, and thehair from red and straight to the short and woolly (in anotherplace, short-tufted ) hair of the Papuas. As in Timor-laut,I believe we have in Timor a mixture of Malay representedperhaps in such faces as Figs. 1 and 2, Papuan (Fig. 3, ), and Polynesian (Fig. 4, p. 466) races. The accompany-ing figures, sketched from one kingdom, will show this mixturebetter than volumes of description; they are the portraits of. X NATIVES OF BIBICUCTJ.


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