OCR Text |
Show 61'!4 EXPLANA'l'IONS OF TilE TABLEAU. lio. 42.- VITI-ISLANDER. [" 111\bitnnt do llano-Onrtcrct, fiVCO 81\ pcinturo do oor6monio :"-D'UnVJLt.~, op. cit., 1'1. oo, IV, p. 4'10.J Colored from idem, J>l. 100. All lhcsc iBlandcrs bct.lnub ~heir ft.Lccs, and slain their hair will! rod nnt.l yellow oohrcB. VII. MAL A Y AN [otherwise "East-Indian"] REALM. (Nos. 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48.) RAl'.i'Lr.:s, llfARSOF.N, CnAW I•'UltD, LooAN: -lhc8o J'ou1· nBm<lS constitulo, Bmoug tho latest, out· ruost rolinblo o.ulhoriticB. Tho most advanced g1·ound of their r<lScarohcs has boon already covered by M. Mnu•·y's Chnptcr I. Not having yot received Mr. Cmwfurd'slnst work (l8li6), I must prcscut lhc render with this gontlo111an's views (in Ilisto1·y of tile lndia11 Arc!tipelu!Jo, Edinbu1·gh, 8vo, J 820; 1, pp. 13-28); after remarking, tlmt Europoo.n first ncqtltLintnnoo with tho 1\lnby rnoo commcncot.l simultnncously with lhttt of tbe 1\lllol·ican, viz: only iLt tho close of tho X Vtlt oontu 1·y. "'l'hc first of these [ftLOts] refers to an oJ·iginrLllutd innate distinction of tho hllbitnnts into two scpr1rntc moes. In tho Indian Archipelago tltOI'O l\re-nn aboriginrdfair 01' brown eomploxionod rncc,-aud an uborigiualtlt!Jro mcc; and, the sou thorn promonto1·y of Afrillo. cxceptot.l, it is the only country of tbo globe which oxltibits tl.tis singular phcnotn cnon. * * * "No country hns produced ll groat or civi lized rnco, but u oouutry which, by its fertility, is oapBblc of yielding o. supply of jarinaceou3 gr·tLin of the first qulllity. * * * '!'heir bonts and ctu1oos t~rc, to the Indian IshLudcrs, what the Cl\tncl, tho horse, and tho ox, nre to tho wandcriug Arn.b and tho 'l'artnr; nnd tho sea is to thcut what tho steppes and tho desert& nrc to tho !utter. * * * "'l'ho Sllvagcs of Now Guinea, sunoundcd at this dny by tho most splendid, beautiful, nnd rare objects of uninmlnncl vogoltlble natu1·e, livo naked uud lliiCttltivntcd. Civilizatiou originated in tho west, whore uro situBtod tho countries capable of producing ool'll. Mnn thoro is most improved; o.nd his impt·ovomcnt clcorerLsos, in o. gcog,·aphicalrntio, ns wo go eastward, until, nt Now Guinea, we find tho whole inhabitants an undistinguished moo of savages. * * * " 'l'hcrc arc two nborigiunlmcos of human beings inhabiting tho Indian Islands, as different from cBch othct· o.s both arc from u,ll the rest of their species. * * * One of these moM may be generally described as o. brown-oomploxionod people, with l11nk l1 air; nnd the other as o. black, or rather sooty-coloured race, with woolly or Ji·izzlod bait·. * * ·lf 'l'hc brown nnd lho negro rt1cea of tho Archipelago mo.y be oonHidcrcd to present, in their phy8icnl n11d morlll charncte1·, a complete pl\r1Lllol with tho White and tho Negro mr.cs of tho woster11 world. 'l'uc fi1·~t hnvo alwo.ys displo.ycd as eminent a relntivc supel'iority over tho scc1ond, M tho rncc of white men has done over tho negroes of tho west. All t11o indi genous oiviliZittion of tho ArchipolBgo hBs sprung from them; nud tho negro race is constBntly found iu tho savage a tate. * * * In some of tho Spice islands their cxtirpntion is rnttttc1· of hi story. * * * 'rho brown colored tribes ILgrcc so remarkl\bly iu appcamncc themselves, that ono geneml description will suffice for nll. * * • 'l'hc standnrd of pct·fcction in oolot· is virgin-gold; and as tho European lover compares tho bosom of his mistress to the whiteness of snow, tho Et\st-Insular lover compo.ro~ that of his to tho yollowncBs of tho precious mota!. * * * 'l'ho complexion is scarcely over clear, and a blush is hardly at nny time discel'lliblc. * * * "'rho Papua, or woolly-hnh'od ro.oc, of tho Indian islands is a dwmf African nogro. A full-grown mnle brought from tho mouutl'-ill8 of Qucda * -~<· ·x- proved to bo no more thau EX pLAN AT I 0 N S 0 1!, '1' liB TABLEAU. G3G . . * * * , 'h skin instead of being jet black, as in tho Af•·icau,. is of a 4 feet!) HIChos l11gh. I 0 ' • d'stinct vl\riety of the bumttn species, nnd 1 * * * Tho Bast-InRulur TICgi'O 18 n I t b' t Hooty co our. . , . , ' * ~ * 'l'hc htwo in no instance rison above tho mos u ~:c evidently (Ivory lllforlor one. y·' b tl ftLiro•· l'MOR they arc bunt d down hkc WI tboy aro cncountorcu Y le ' bl f ctuoon dwitiilodn .r mim!L1IH\\ ncovf erl ho !.o rost, u. ,nd u...u..l ven t o tho mountnins or fastn~ssos, incapa o o rcsisto.ncc. * * * . . f b tl U 0 negro IL!Id brown-complexioned mooR, "'l'ho question of th.o f.in·st ongm o o I I f I rco.son Dy very suporficinl b f . boyan l the compnss o IUmo.n · . . appco.rs to mo to o one nt . , f,. !ltHl tho other an cnngrat10n 1 b on supposed 1t colony from " tiCII, N observers, tuo ou~ 11\8 c , . . absuru to boar tho slightest examination. ot to fl·om '1\wtttry. Either ltypothcsts tS too l l k from wl.tich it is imagined to hnvo bl\y thl\t each race is radicttlly distinol from t 10 t s oc f man nll we know of his history, proceeded. tho physicu,l HtfLlc of lhc globe, tho ntt. t~rc o ·bio " must be o~orlul·ned to render these violent supposltlons possl . RnFEllENCES AND EXPLANATIONS. No. 43. - MALAY. ' 'tr .A?Iimat Kingdom, T.onaon, 1827; T, l'l•to, p. 186.) [" Nntivo of Solor :"~0HIY¥1TII 8 0".~' : 1 r hue in Pf:nON, Voy. aux 1'erreB Attllraltl, Soc ori gimLl, wllh some V!ltlltttOJ o ~. ' inet II tlas llist., Pl. V, "sold ut (1800- 4) ; 2tl od. ; corrected by De 11 oyc ' d'lnfrLnt6ric Mltl~i~e." ·ho with my brother Henry) ltas t.l·nnsf'ol'l'od. h~s ~·cs~- My brother Wt.ll~ n~n, '~~ . (m hi~ on the Nile, to Memphis on tho Mt~HtHRlJl~l, dcnco from tho vtCl.ntty of M~ p A;·c l•i rln o, wltcro his ](!low lodge of Amb~t·, resided fom yoars Ill the lndlnu p ~ ologicnl perceptions, onnblctl hun fnmilinrity with Mussulmnns, Bnd C~OIII' c Inti f llowing on those portrait~: . l Jfo wrttcs me 10 o ) r co.di ly to acf!u lrC ltfa ay. . f Klillg ( low-cn~to mnn of lll ndm~ 'd to be tho olfspr111g o a 1 t . "Your ltlalay I consl or . . N 46) lool{s more like a 1\lnlo.y. n 01- 'rho Mmttr(l ( o. , ~tnd o. Maln.y womnn.. d M lrLynn woman is not uncommon. course between n Klmg an a a No. 44. - JAVANESE. 0 t,.hulisclle 7'ypw; Tiollnna, folio, 1864; f> •flering.) ["Singo·Sokllr:"-V•N .l'Ens, os ondon 4lo, 1817,-l'lntoM, froutispiocc & T, P·, Soc RAJ'B'J'.I·:a (l~t81 of Java, ], ·~nsmuch as lti gh-cBstc l\1n.ln yo-Jnvnncsc 92-n.lso, P· li\l) fo•· the fn.ct th~~·. ~his "Siugo-Soktw" mu. t be low-cusw. complexion is "l\ virgin-gold colot, 45 MARIANNE-ISLANDER. . £T l'oy. "I'Urnuio;" Pnri~, 1825, Pl. No. .- )"ntOunm:-Dz~ntYCJN ' [" Claudio·Lajo (Jnuion do race puro ' 61, No.2.) HINDOO nnlivo nrtist (ubi 8!tpra, Chnp. H , Og•, No. 46- L"Ohao;t·Oilamta, Voldhoon ~nn Viazj~~;~~:~:,~:~·~~r~~.lit: -onlurgoa, liko the pr cooing one, 03-0) in tho l'Ul.BZKY collection, ))u to ~tcb Lho otltor lt llllS iu l.his 'l'nblcnu.l 11. Mtss EDF.N'S Po1'11'(zil8 of tltc m · t' Tf 'ndooa tho ON. ' b · ComplLl'O for chrn·n.cterls lC ' . l 844 Although uncolored, t ore ul o Princes and People of ludia, London, fol., . IlOilO SO good. IRA I I loly ootllcd nt numbiftb ncnr Iio. 47. - .MINT . i tirft tribe" (from On gong llornnm, w ;or. ,"_ ,Jmt'"llll of the JmNu" .Archt· ["Mnn of tho M n "l'by~icnl chnrnclori•lk• or tlto Mint~: 1847; PP· 828-36, J!lnto I'· 307, MlllncCll :- I,OOAN, • 294- 6; and SHJIJ>ll"'ttMtl, cc. ptl«{JO, r, No. V, Nov., 1847' PP· . , 2d fig.J • 247- 8 251; but no spocml rcfctc~c~, Colored by descriptions m ~o. :~ pp.l colorn,tion in these criticnl pnpers. It IS . c to sliy, beiog mado to llldlVIdua 2tJ5-8 &c.; with 11 MIII.TON R~ll1'11, :~ ~;c~l to compare Vol. JJ, Mny~ 18t;b:~;ll\llgcs 'which some of tlic~o iij}tLmlere op. cit. PI. 224-8. As a mcrucn o o |