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Third : modification of the common stem by mutation unusual to 

 the Indonesian phonetic and probably representing the resultant of 

 an effort to reproduce foreign sounds difficult to the borrower's vocal 

 organs. 



Similarly we should expect to find a word delivered by the Malay- 

 sians to the Sawaiori diminishing in frequency along the wide eastern 

 extent of the migration, practically constant in Indonesia itself. 

 The answer thereto is patent in the check-list : Polynesia holds each 

 of these words practically to its utmost east ; it is Indonesia which 

 shows great gaps. 



We can not, therefore, regard the common vocabulary as in any 

 sort borrowed by Sawaiori from Indonesia. 



To the theory of derivation from a common parent the objections 

 are insuperable. A common parent would have delivered a greater 

 community of vocabulary, would have delivered a grammatical sys- 

 tem that would show some interrelation between the two branches 

 of the family. There is absolutely no record of a speech of man 

 which contains these few vocables which Polynesia and Indonesia 

 share, for it must be plain long ere this point is reached that the 

 Semitic theory has no sound base. 



The third possibility is that to which alone the objections are so 

 few and so slight as readily to yield to the study of the problem, 

 namely, that the community of vocabulary is Indonesian borrowing 

 from Sawaiori. How this might be brought about has sufficiently 

 been indicated already in the consideration of the nature and extent 

 of the Sawaiori expulsion. 



The indication of quality of such borrowed material presented in 

 the check-list affords more matter of interest. As in our study of 

 the Melanesian traverse it indicates by lines of higher quality the 

 lines of travel. 



Assuming, and this the well-recorded traditions of Java warrant — 

 assuming the appulse of the advancing Malaysians as delivered upon 

 the islands of the archipelago by the convenient way of the Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra first would feel the shock, and Java next in 

 practically undiminished volume. From Java two eastward ways 

 lie out like a < . The northern line, following the north shore 

 of Borneo, leads directly to the Philippines; following the south 

 shore of that great island leads equally to the Philippines in their 

 southern extent, but affords many opportunities of deviation by 

 Celebes toward Gilolo northward and toward Buru and Ceram in 

 a southerly course, and there the flight would be stopped by the 

 inhospitality of New Guinea with the obstacle of its fierce and 

 immiscible Papuan race. 



The southern line leads directly into the Arafura Sea and Torres 

 Straits. The halting-places are such islands as Bali, Lombok, Rotti, 



