FLORES, called also Endie or Mangerye, extensive island of the Archipelago, 201 miles long from E. to W., and from 42 to 45 miles broad. Flores Head is in about lat. 8° 44' S. and long.122° 50' E. It is so naxned from the Portuguese word Flor, a flower. Flores Island is the fifth in a line E. from Java due S. of Celebes, and of vol canic formation, and affords the fu-st example of a race of men seemingly intermediate between the 3falay and Papuan, but partaking far more of the physical form of the former than of the latter. The complexion is a good deal darker than that of the Malay, the nose flatter, the mouth wider, and the lips thicker. The hair is not lank as in the 3falay, but buckles, without frizzling, as in the Papuan. The stature is the same as that of tho 3falay, that is, short and squab. Bugis settlers in the island told Mr.Crawfurd that Flores is inhabited by six different nations, speaking as many differ ent languages, the Ende, the Mangarai, the Kio, the Roka, the Konga, and the Galeteng,—names all derived from the principal places of their residence. The coast is occupied by the 3falay or brown race ; but in the interior is a people with frizzled hair, and a similar frizzled hair people live in the mountainous parts of Solor, Pintar, Lombata, and Ombay. Captain Keppel gives the
following translation frona a Dutch journal On the island of Flores there lives a race, called on the south coast Rakka, who not only devour their enemies, but with whom custom requires that the son shall cut the body of his deceased father in pieces, and sell the flesh to the inhabitants at the high price of its weight in gold. This flesh is greedily eaten by the people as a great delicacy. if the father WES heavy and of great size, the son considers himself particularly fortunate. The population of Endore, on the same island, is also very greedy of human flesh. But these cannibals confine themselves to the heart, which with in credible dexterity they extract from the body, by giving a blow under the left shoulder-blade. It is then cut into very small pieces, eaten com pletely raw by tho bystanders who belong to the same race.' Captain Keppel adds, I am not able to corroborate this.' Galeteng is a locality in the island of Flores, occupied by a raco so called.— Ilorsburgh ; Bikmore ; lieppers Ind. Arch. ii. 149 ; Crawfurd.