CHAPTER IX. 

 THE SAWAIORI BEGINNING RESTS UNKNOWN. 



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 ignorance of phonetic prin- 

 ciples — 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 wandering Sawaiori — End 

 of the classification which has joined Malay and Polynesian — The be- 

 ginning of the great Polynesian race is lost in westward and empty sea. 



As in the earlier chapters, we provide a check-list of the various 

 Semitic identifications sought to be established by Dr. Macdonald 

 in the data here collated. Thus those still curious in the further 

 examination of the theme may follow the topic back to the several 

 languages which he has involved in the elucidation of his theory. 







