Timor.
The island of Timor, which from its animal and vegetable production, and from the different races of men by which it is inhabited, partakes of the nature of the South islands, as of litis lii-.lian Aichipelago. It is about 250 miles long-, with an average breadth of about -10. Timor is inhabited by four principal races. Tlie original ca'ives who resemble in many respects the lias tern Negroes, dwell chiefly in tlie mountains of thu interior, wliither they have lleil lor refugo. The Malays, who are settled on the coasts, tame from the west, probably from Taua. The Chinese have been long established in considerables numbers in Timor, where, as in the oilier Islands of the Archipelago, they display great skill, and perseverance in traffic ; nnd by their intermixture with the Malays, lliey have produced a very numerous variety. A modern traveller describes the original natives of Timor, as'Birangers to almost all the social institutions, still armed with the bow arrow and club, sworn enemies of the Mulays, swift of foot, dwelling in tho clefts ol wells, or in tho recesses of the forests, living exclusively on fruits and the produce of the chase, always at war, either with one another, or with the Malays; ferocious in all their and manners, and combining all the characteristics of the negro race, properly so called, short, woolly friizled hair, and a black colour. But this portrait seems to be deliennted from the accounts of the iDutch and Malays, and nol from lactual observation. It does not even appear certain that any recent voyager lias had opportunities of seeing individuals of the original raco of Timor.—The H'orld in Minalure.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 84, 11 March 1852, Page 2
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277Timor. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 84, 11 March 1852, Page 2
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