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inferior to the Australian in the power of acquiring language, and in intelligence generally. In talking to a clever Australian native one feels that one is speaking to a person who has all the faculties (though undeveloped) of a European, and he is generally quiet and dignified in his manner; but the Polynesian, the Malay, and some others, have always seemed to me to belong to raccs having little or nothing in common with the European.

Fig. 8 illustration of File:Aboriginesofvictoria01 Fig. 9 illustration of File:Aboriginesofvictoria01
FIG. 8. FIG. 9.

Tomati Hapimana's skin showed in some lights the peculiar leaden-blue tint so characteristic of the Malayo-Polynesians.

Fig. 10 illustration of File:Aboriginesofvictoria01 Fig. 11 illustration of File:Aboriginesofvictoria01
FIG. 10. FIG. 11.

The portrait of a man with a feather in his hair (Fig. 9) was sent to me as a specimen of the Indo-European type of the Maori; Fig. 10, as one exhibiting Mongolian features; and Fig. 11, as a man of the Papuan type.