. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Dewas reproduced andmarriage was ; Adam married with Uwo (Eve ?), the earthmarried with the sky, and the mist with the clouds and Allahgave conception to all things. The Passumah people are a tall strong race, with well and IN SUMATRA. 195 intelligently moulded faces ; the nose with a rather prominentand straight dorsum, the eyes sunk deeply in the head, thecheek-bones projecting, but without the prominent thick lipsso distinctive of the Malay face. They are very independent,somewha
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Dewas reproduced andmarriage was ; Adam married with Uwo (Eve ?), the earthmarried with the sky, and the mist with the clouds and Allahgave conception to all things. The Passumah people are a tall strong race, with well and IN SUMATRA. 195 intelligently moulded faces ; the nose with a rather prominentand straight dorsum, the eyes sunk deeply in the head, thecheek-bones projecting, but without the prominent thick lipsso distinctive of the Malay face. They are very independent,somewhat surly in heart and desperately lazy people; notvery friendly inclined to their neighbours in the adjoiningdistricts. They are by no means dishonest, and live peace-fully among themselves. Their children are lively andamused with little ; but neither of their parents trouble them-selves much about them after they are old enough to runabout by themselves. They were rather afraid to allow me tosubmit their length and breadth to the test of the measur-ing-line, dreading lest the measure of their bodies should. FASSTSIAH BRACELETS OF SILVER, SHOWING THE ORNAMENTATION DERIVEDFKOM THE YOUNG SHOOTS OF THE BAMBOO. bear some sinister relation to the span of their giving, however, the most pacifying assurances, I foundten men and five women bold enough to risk the average height of the men was 5 feet 4-15 inches, thelength of his arm 1T23 inches, and of his forearm to the tipof his longest finger 2 feet 51 inches, while in the women thecorresponding measurements were, 5 feet 075 inches in stature,11-35 inches in length of arm, and 2 feet 385 inches offorearm. The tallest man was 5 feet 825 inches, and the mostherculean of the women 5 feet 2-75 inches. The men dress as in other districts. The women, especiallythe maidens, are strong, well proportioned and well developed ;many of them are very good-looking, having, what is rare among 196 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS
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