I had often before made the same mistake in paying a Malay for some trifle.

In no case, however, was his pleasure visible on his countenance--a dull and stupid hesitation only showing his surprise, which would be exhibited exactly in the same way whether he was over or under paid.

These little moral traits are of the greatest interest when taken in connexion with physical features.

They do not admit of the same ready explanation by external causes which is so frequently applied to the latter.

Writers on the races of mankind have too often to trust to the information of travellers who pass rapidly from country to country, and thus have few opportunities of becoming acquainted with peculiarities of national character, or even of ascertaining what is really the average physical conformation of the people.