262 MAN : PAST AND PRESENT. [CHAP. 



North Luzon, as well as the Malays of Singapore 1 /' Mr G. Taylor 

 also, who has visited several of the wildest groups in the 

 southern and eastern districts 2 (Tipims, Paiwans, Diaramocks, 

 Nickas, Amias and many others), traces some "probably" to 

 Japan (Tipuns) ; others to Malaysia (the cruel, predatory Paiwan 

 head-hunters); and others to the Liu-Kiu archipelago (the Pepoh- 

 wans now of Chinese speech). He describes the Diaramocks as 

 the most dreaded of all the southern groups, but doubts whether 

 the charge of cannibalism brought against them by their neigh- 

 bours is quite justified. 



Whether the historical Malays from Singapore or elsewhere, 

 as above suggested, are really represented in Formosa may be 

 doubted, since no survivals either of Hindu or Muhammadan 

 rites appear to have been detected amongst the aborigines. It is 

 of course possible that they may have reached the island at some 

 remote time, and since relapsed into savagery, from which the 

 Orang-laut were never very far removed. But in the absence 

 of proof, it will be safer to regard all the wild tribes as partly of 

 Indonesian, partly of proto- Malayan origin. 



This view is also in conformity with the character of the 

 numerous Formosan dialects, whose affinities are 

 Affinities!* 10 either with the Gyarung and others of the Asiatic 

 Indonesian tongues, or else with the Malayo- 

 Polynesian organic speech generally, but not specially with any 

 particular member of that family, least of all with the com- 

 paratively recent standard Malay. Thus Dr Arnold Schetelig 

 points out that only about a sixth part of the Formosan vocabulary 

 taken generally corresponds with modern Malay 3 . The analogies 

 of all the rest must be sought in the various branches of the 



1 Les Races Malaiques etc., in L? Anthropologie^ 1896. 



2 The Aborigines of Formosa, in China Review, xiv. p. 198 sq., also XVI. 

 No. 3. (A Ramble Through Southern Formosa!) The services rendered by 

 this intelligent observer to Formosan ethnology deserve more general recogni- 

 tion than they have hitherto received. 



3 Sprachen der Ureinwohner Formosa's in Zeitschr.f. Volkerpsychologie etc. 

 v. p. 437 sq. This anthropologist found to his great surprise that the Poly- 

 nesian and Maori skulls in the London College of Surgeons presented striking 

 analogies with those collected by himself in Formosa. Here at least is a 

 remarkable harmony between speech and physical characters. 



