VIII CONTENTS. 



Chapter VII. Polynesian Relics throughout Melanesia 55 



Check-list of the material for this section of the work. — Tables of the phonetic 

 relations of 81 languages of the Melanesian archipelagoes. — The several 

 mutations of vowels and consonants and the languages which employ 

 them. — Analysis of these mutations, those which are found in Polynesia 

 and those confined to Melanesia. — The groundwork of Polynesian muta- 

 tion and the Melanesian system compared therewith. — Two Melanesian 

 foci of Polynesian influence brought to light. — The sieve theory disproved 

 by this material. — Proof of the general migration theory. — -Crop colonies 

 and the important part they play. — Two tracks of Proto-Samoan migration 

 through Melanesia. — Proof that a Melanesian sojourn preceded the settle- 

 ment of Samoa. 



Chapter VIII. Sawaiori Material in Indonesia 151 



Limitation of the points of inquiry. — Check-list of the Indonesian material. — 

 Synoptical tables of mutation varieties. — Mutations compared with the 

 systems of the Pacific languages. — Character and probable place of the 

 contact of Indonesian and Polynesian.- — -The nature of an ethnic swarm 

 discussed. — The Malay advance was an affair of outposts. — Whence arose 

 the speech community, which after all is a matter of but a gross of words. — 

 The Indonesians are shown to be borrowers. — Two lines of Sawaiori escape 

 through the Malay archipelago lead to the two tracks identified through 

 Melanesia. — The designation Malayo-Polynesian should be discarded 

 because false. 



Chapter IX. The Sawaiori Beginning Rests Unknown 175 



Check-list of the Semitic words for which affinity has been sought. — Failure of 

 the effort to identify this material with Sawaiori stock.— The reasons lie 

 in false definitions and irregularity of phonetic principles. — -The Semitic 

 does not conform to the laws of the family. — Summation of the results of 

 this inquiry. — -The two Sawaiori swarms, the earlier through Melanesia, 

 the latter not yet discovered on the face of the trackless sea. — The double 

 migration track in the western Pacific. — The problem of the Melanesians 

 has been considered only in so far as they have been affected by the wan- 

 dering Sawaiori. — End of the classification which has joined Malay and 

 Polynesian. — The beginning of the great Polynesian race is lost in west- 

 ward and empty sea. 



Appendix i. Data and Notes 18.5 



Appendix 2. The Southern Gateway 433 



Appendix 3. Bibliography 493 



