. Anthropology. Australians, Esquimaux, and the Veddahs of Ceylon. Theforehead of 9 35 is much narrower than in the negroes of Africa,but less than in Australians. The nasal index clearly places itapart from aL. the Black races ; it is 5306, that is to say verynearly mesorrhinian. The orbital index of 806 approximates it tathe Australians and the prehistoric races, and separates it from theYeUow races. The prognathism is 69-8, and a little less than inthe Australians and negroes of Africa, though in all it is consider-able. Simply by the arrangement of the inferior border of thenasal aperture
. Anthropology. Australians, Esquimaux, and the Veddahs of Ceylon. Theforehead of 9 35 is much narrower than in the negroes of Africa,but less than in Australians. The nasal index clearly places itapart from aL. the Black races ; it is 5306, that is to say verynearly mesorrhinian. The orbital index of 806 approximates it tathe Australians and the prehistoric races, and separates it from theYeUow races. The prognathism is 69-8, and a little less than inthe Australians and negroes of Africa, though in all it is consider-able. Simply by the arrangement of the inferior border of thenasal aperture one may always distinguish a New Caledonian froman African negro. In the former it is absolutely obliterated, andreplaced by two channels of an altogether simian character, whichpass down on each side in the direction of the alveolar border. In Chap, xii.] NEW CALEDONIAN TYPE. 497 the latter it is blunt but tolerably distinct, or replaced by a sort ofplatform. The facial angle is tbe smallest ia our tables (see. Fio. 48.— A New Caledooian half-breed : Yellow variety of M. Bourgarel, from M. de laKicheries collection. page 286). Daubentons angle is that of the Black races, theparietal angle the smallest known. The superciliary arches aremore prominent according as the individual is more Melanesian—a I K 498 NEaEITO TYPE. [Chap. xir. remarkable difference from the negro of Africa, in whom they aresmall and flat. But what strikes one at a cursory glance in theprincipal type of the Island of Pines, is the coarseness of thefeatures, and the contrast between the hoUows and prominences ofthe face, which gives it a ferocious appearance. The integumentswould however modify these characters, as in the Tasmanian, tojudge by the very beautiful photographs forwarded by M. Simon,,French consul at Sydney, and unless theyrepresent another altogethercontemporaneous type, the face would be, on the contrary, full,,round, moderately long, the features, as it were, pasty, and withoutanimation.
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