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 A JACOON AND HIS WIFE. (438)

HE Jacoons are a primitive tribe inhabiting, in conjunction with others of the same character, the Malayan Peninsula., They are the most African and prognathous of the lank haired Indianesiaii tribes.—Balfour. No further particulars are given of these in the official papers; but they appear to be a cognate tribe of negritos with the Siangs and others of the same locality who belong to a very low type of the human race. The average height of a party of Siang men was four feet eight inches, the tallest being four feet ten inches. Their features give indications of similarity with those of the Australian and Papuari races. Those of the persons represented agree with time ethnological description; but the Jacoon and his wife are both decently dressed, and may have become civilized themselves, or belong to a portion of the tribe who may have come under civilized influences.