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Sambawa, Timor, and lesser groups yet farther east. In the Arafura 

 Sea the southern line would be joined by such of the fugitives along 

 the northern line as deviated on the Celebes-Buru-Ceram course and 

 were turned still further away by New Guinea. 



New Guinea is no theoretical obstacle. We find less trace of the 

 Sawaiori on its almost continental mass than upon any spot of land 

 which their canoes could have reached in the flight. Even up to 

 the present day the Malays, for two millenniums holding all of 

 Indonesia and voyaging hither and yon for the equal joys of fighting 

 and of trading, have succeeded in making no permanent lodgment 

 upon the Papuan shore. 



The Sawaiori flight out of Indonesia inverts the seasonal migration 

 of the geese — its < opens forward. Thus parted, approximately at 

 Java, it is to be a long flight before those diverging lines come 

 together, not until Samoa is reached and a new home for the united 

 race, for such at least as have escaped the infinite perils of unknown 

 seas. It will be recalled that in the study of the migration through 

 Melanesia the material under examination was assembled to prove 

 the existence of a northern and a southern track, the Samoa and 

 the Viti streams respectively, one emerging from Indonesia through 

 an eastern portal in the Bismarck Archipelago, the other through a 

 southern portal in Torres Straits. 



The latter is readily recognizable as the direct production of the 

 southern line of flight in Indonesia. If we examine such vocables 

 as exhibit a difference between the two streams in Melanesia we 

 shall find that those which characterize the northern stream find 

 their greatest frequency, preserve the highest quality, in the several 

 languages of the Philippine Archipelago, Bicol, Ilocan, Magindano, 

 Pampangas, Sulu, Tagalog, Visayan and others from which our 

 material is less complete. 



It seems that now it is time to relinquish the term Malayo-Poly- 

 nesian. There is neither ethnic nor linguistic unity. If the Indo- 

 nesians in the paucity of their original speech have borrowed some 

 150 vocables from their victims, if they have been willing to take 

 even their numerals from a conquered and fugitive race, it does not 

 seem that they are entitled to be bracketed, and that with the 

 honors of first mention, with a distinct family of speech. The Poly- 

 nesian is an older speech than the Indonesian, one that has been 

 carried greater distances of sea and land than even our Aryan until 

 after centuries the Aryans grew bold enough to conquer the sea; 

 yet uncounted generations earlier the sea had been the easy path 

 for the Sawaiori to come to his Polynesian own. 



