h the relative predominance
of the three strains may well vary with these different people.

I am hardly qualified to enter into the discussion as to the
relationship, if any, existing between the principal hitherto known
dwarf races, the Pygmies of Central Africa, the Semang of the Malay
Peninsula, the Andamanese and the Aetas of the Philippine Islands,
or to deal with the question whether or not all or some of them are
to be grouped together as forming a distinct and related type, or
are to be regarded as unconnected in the sense that each of them is
merely a local variation, sharing a common ancestry with some other
taller negroid race.

As, however, my suggestion of a partial negrito origin of the
Mafulu people necessarily brings me into contact with this wider
question, and the latter is still one upon which opinions differ,
I may perhaps briefly tabulate some of the chief physical characters
of the Andamanese, the Semang, the Aetas, the dwarf people recently
found in Dutch New Guinea and the Mafulu. I think I may omit the
African pygmies from my tables.

_Stature._

Andamanese 4' 10 1/2''

This is the figure given by Mr. Portman (_Journal of
Anthropological Institute_, vol. 25, p. 366) and by Dr. Haddon
(_Races of Man and their Distribution_, p. 9), and is very near
the 4'10 3/4'' given by Mr. Man (_The Andaman Islanders_, p. 5),
and adopted by Messrs. Skeat and Blagden (_Pagan Races of the
Malay Peninsula_, p. 573).

Semang 4' 10 3/4''
Skeat and Blagden (_Pagan Races_, &c., p. 573) and Haddon (Races
of Man, &c., p. 9).

Aetas 4' 10''

This is Dr. Haddon's figure (_Races of Man, &c._, p. 9), and it
is within half an inch of the 4' l0 1/2'' given by Dr. Semper
(_Journal of Anthropology_ for October, 1870, p. 135). Dr. Meyer
gives a number of varying measurements (see _Journal of
Anthropological Institute,_ vol. 25, p. 174), and Reed gives the
average of 48 males, some of whom were not pure types, only 4' 9"
(_Negritos of Zambales_, p. 32).

Dutch New Guinea dwarfs 4' 9''

Captain Rawling (_Geographical Journal_, vol. 38, p. 245).

Mafulu 5' 1''

It is merely suggested by me that they are _partly_ negrito,
which, if correct, would explain the somewhat higher stature.

_General Physique._

Andamanese

Well proportioned, and with good muscular development (Man,
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