LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



the Malay Archipelago, although through our misun- 

 derstanding with Spain, which loaded us up with pos- 

 sessions we have no use for, we have recently gotten 

 the geography down and dusted it off a bit. 

 There is a book by Mrs. Rose Innes, wife of an English 

 official in the Far East, who among other entertaining 

 things, tells of a head-hunter chief who taught her to 

 speak Malay, and she, wishing to reciprocate, offered 

 to teach him English, but the great man begged to be 

 excused, saying, " Malay is spoken everywhere you 

 go, east, west, north or south, but in all the world there 

 are only twelve people who speak English," and he 

 proceeded to name them. 



Our assumptions are not quite so broad as this, but 

 few of us realize that the Protestant Christian Reli- 

 gion stands fifth in the number of communicants, as 

 compared with the other great religions, and that 

 against our eighty millions of people in America, the 

 Malay Archipelago has over two hundred millions. 

 Q Wallace found marked geological, botanical and zo- 

 ological differences to denote his line. And from these 

 things he proved that there had been great changes, 

 through subsidence and elevation of the land. At no 

 very remote geologic period, Asia extended clear to 

 Borneo, and also included the Philippine Islands. This 

 is shown by the fact that animal and vegetable life in 

 all of these islands are almost identical with life on the 

 mainland — the same trees, the same flowers, the same 

 birds, the same animals. 



As you go westward, however, you come to islands 

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