From F. F. Geach 4 July 1868
Answers to queries about Expressions1
No. of Query
1 — All the Malays of this district Men, Women & Children, when asked to show where any thing has been put, as a knif, Sarong, or an article of dress, look towards the spot, or article, and pout or elongate the lips— Similar to a monkey attempting to make friends with his Master.
2 A Bugis Man2
Face. Neck. Arms. Body to waist
— A Chinese man age 24
Face. Arms. & Breast
— A Malay man
Do — Do. Do.
— A Malay Woman
Face, only seen.
— A Chinese Woman
Face, and Neck.
— A Chinese Man
Face.
A Bugis Man
Face. Arms. & Breast.3
3 — A Bugis Man.
First part of question— Yes, and opened his hands.
4. Malay Man
Frowns, looks down, wrinkles the skin about the eye.
— Another man wrinkles on the brow and lifts up his head.
— Another man.
Depressed Corners of the mouth, the chin & forehead in wrinkles.
— Another— Frowns.
— Another. Corners of the mouth depressed Chin & Forehead in
wrinkles. Frowns.
— With a Bugis Man
Latter part of the question
— A Malay boy. Do. Do. Do.
— A Malay man— Yes—
— Another man. Frowns.
5 A Malay man. From Malacca.
The Corners of the mouth much depressed.
The Nose & inner Corners of the eye wrinkled the brow deeply
grooved and short.
A very strange expression, the man turned his head & it was gone, very much like a person about to cry at some great loss. Only one opportunity4
No 6. A Bugis man
Corners of the mouth a little raised. Under the eyes slightly wrinkled
7. My Malay boat man
Only seen once.5
8. A Bugis man. Yes. "
" A Malay man Yes "
9 — I have not a Note —
10th All Malays answer to spitting something from the mouth6
11 — Malays become White Shake
12 Malay Woman. Yes—
13 A Malay Man
Beautifully discribed7
13. A Bugis Man Yes.
opens his legs.
14. Malay Boys & Girls “Yes”
15. Not a Note
16.— do do
17. Malay Men & Women Yes
4 July 1868
Malay Peninsula
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.
Summary
Answers to Expression questionnaire.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6267F
- From
- Frederick F. Geach
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 23/2
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6267F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6267F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
