objects : specimens of most of the genus papilio and many of other genera
have already been collected.
Java does not afford the same opportunities fox beautiful collections of
shells as the Moluccas, Papua, and other Islands. Along the northern
coast, few shells axe found ‘Of beauty or variety, and the corallines have
mostly lost their integrity by attrition} but the extensive bays in the
southern shore contain many of these objects in a state of beauty and
perfection.
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C H A P T E R Ijiii.j* i'
Origin of.jM^Natims.^J^anSsCo^qredr'tioith Maldyus and Biigis.*~Comjpa-
ratiye Progress o f:,0p Mree^Bg^ei^For&gd^Influencei-^Persom sofinthes
Natives.—Map-aerh~^QPVdati°n^Irt§q%dlityiS^lit accounted ifon.^Popu*
. Mian] ^TqiJes.— 'lncragsavtiqf sB&gylatiQn.-^-Fmeign j Settlers.f^&hinesei^-
Bugis.r^JS^aI^y^s.~^qpr^'^JIrr/il!&-—BIaveSi-^ Gradations«qfWRanfaamong-
1 the Jqvans.^,PJieir^HabiMiQ)is,^N,r.ess, and Food. ,
T he inhabitants:,^ Java^ seem totiowe their origin, to the same» stocky .from- Origin of the
which fmost>oT<the,-aslajids Lying stdlthasdnthrbf^the.eastern peninsula of* Asia1
appgariito haye'^bee®jfet'peopleA $^is.stock-isjevidently Tartar, and has, 1
by>its,numer,o_Us Ethdiwide?spr.eading branches, -snot only extended' it-selTover
fhpjiThdiii.ri. Archipelago,. but over themeighbouringicantinent. i “ To jttlgj©
^^from< .external,appearance, that is to say,'.Troth-shape, siJefjoSfodTeature}**
Francis..Tuchanani.anihfsMNotice&on-the'iBirman Empire,*
‘hrthere^is, one .svery^tjextensivn; nation dhatuiribabitsi-theneast^itiAsiav- Tti
“ includes,the,ieastern' and western Tartansydf‘-the> Chinese^authdrs^-fhfef
ragCa! milrpnm'giChinese..'uthe- Japanese,, ahckother tribes-inhabiting^what* ’is*
‘t;jcalLeds.W iPeninsula. of India beyond th e --Ganges*-Wd-*dhS‘tislands1 toJ
“ the rsb.ut4 and east ,<of.-this,i as. far at le a s e s »New-Guinea^’*—“ ThisJ
“ nation,’’'.adds the^same author, “ maybe-distinguished by- a short?,1%'quat,
“ robust, jfleshy stature,; and by features • highlyi-different. froMthose-'of- ah.
a Europeanu . The face is somewhat in shape -of,<a!- lcfeenge,,4-'thewforehead^
“ andh^hlf ebeing sharpened,'- whilst a t th e 1 clkefe'<'boTries^ it- isJvery-foroad.
S l ^ r<eyebro.ws,. or superciliary>TidgeS;*.- in »this^natien,pfbjbct Very little,J
the eyes are very narrow, and placed ratMr nbliquely in-tnehead;; the-
“^external angles being the highest.- - TSeunose is very smalkPbut- hWnbt, .
“Aikeathattnof, thei negro; ,the appearance of-i being *^a%t%d9^®;¥ntl %ie‘
“ apertures of the nostrils,. which in theuEuropeamhre^ihedh'aihd parallel,4in1
“ them «are nearly *gd-r.cnlap land J di-vengeuti ' fori the- - seN^m^nitritm^bUmg11
“ •much1*