Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-27

forks and scattering leaves thereupol The structure is practically what man would devise, if compelled to pa q night in forest aloef from possib enemies on the ground.
 Uncle Sam looks upon all of his nc neighbers in the southwestern Pacif as possible customers: he has got compete for their trades. NaturaIll the little niggers" are not to be. reel oned with very seriously from th point of view; but there are others, A through that vast watery region al found the Papuaus-superb negroes k purest type, wearing huge bushy mol of hair, which are sometimes help5 out with wigs to add 10 their size. T| island of Paqua. or New Guinea, whi| has an era enormously greater thl that of all the Philippines put togethI is populated chiefly by these nsi heads, who likewise furnish most of N inhabitants to New Caledonia, M Britain. New Hebrides. New IrelaI { Fiji and various other isles ard grouI The Papuans are eounterparts. al might say. of the fine looking, big 4 groes of the Congo, just as the Negrii| of Polynesia correspond to the Ak and African dwarfs.
 For reasons very obvious, howe8S Uncle Sam must look for his trad4a Polynesia and thereabout chiefly toll Malays, who in comparatively reas centuries have spread all over Oeea1s sH These are brown people, and S handsomest savages on earth. Of @H perior intelligence. they have dH&z| out the Papuans to great extent .8| have well-nigh exterminated whaW5| latter had left of the aboriginal sI3z| niggers." One finds the Malays al@3| way from southeastern Asia to @M Hawaiian group. which their nnvigi 1zI were first to discover. In some #3s archipelagoes which they inhabitzz ture has so accommodated condi to human wants that the people q af]| have to work. They adorn tnems3I with bright-eoiored flowers, and 1i8{ {8 fish and the easily-grown "taro, Z| familiar big-leafed elephant-ea ar a Of our own gardens. which has tHsz ous edible root. The origin of tfH& | lays is mystery. but there is reason for believing that they 8 some Aryan blood. and are the 2;|lb 2;|lb| related to ourselves. though dist $ If this is to be true, we are nesl9] quiring population of remote cd in the eastern seas. Since time morial these people have been traders. and there have never more inyeterate pirates. Some q pursue the latter trade even present day. There arc land and water Alalays, who deservs \ properly differentiated. The foft agricultural and of the degree O zation termed barbarous; thI| very wnrlil5e and use the serpd sword called ''lreese" anti# frightfnl weapons. Head-hunii favorite amusement of theirs, thH|| of enemies being hung up ii8 houses The head-hnntcrs of are Malays. This, by the wa ancient, and therefore most
 able, custom. The Tartars of ' Asia take heads; the Indians l America take scalps. In either
 purpose is to give undeniable
 the killing of man. The development and sprea
 4 water Malays has been due
 great inventions made by tieEf first of these was the gen@goii3 with an outrigger, which rendd ocean trips practicable. In boaI kind they made longer voyn those of Columbus. The secoi ton was the sail that could tS4 in such way as 10 make itz2H to tack against the wind.
 was compressed food dried ( al taro root-which was nutritHT servable and easy to carry.
 in effect, q primitive herd taM the aid of the three dissoveri
 these people spread over and
 the greater part of Oceanica,
 Hawaii.
 | One theory advanced by sci
 count for the fact that sina8z dwarfs and similar big nell ! found to-day in Africa and sia is that there existed ages tinent in the midst of whaf4f
 Indian ocean. Here, aceora
 idea, was the earliest abidi1#
 man. From this Atlantic oIz
 ern hemisphere, which sui
 sank beneath the sea. spreafE | and eastward the primitive 1 gether with their congeners3z l apes. This accounts for the the dwarfs and apes in AfrikSs
 in the region recognized asnsE l geologically to southeaster now represented by islaHd i Borneo. In subsequent til8 obedience to natural condzi large negro was developedA l small negro. and he slrryj
 he was better able to aoTs
 everyday difficulties of exi H
 It may be true. perhaps,
 lang of Borneo represents
 est to-day 10 the missing @ l brain capacity is about flH 1 the highest existing ape. f7 worth mentioning in this