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How came the Malay to America ? Dr. Pickering, in his 

 Races of Man, replies : " In attempting from any part of Poly- 

 nesia to reach America a canoe would naturally and almost 

 necessarily be conveyed to the northern extreme of California ; 

 and this is the precise limit where the second physical race of 

 men makes its appearance." The same writer holds that " if any 

 actual remnant of the Malay race exists in the eastern part of 

 North America, it is probably to be looked for among the Chip- 

 pewas (Ojibbeways) and the Cherokees," The judgment of Dr. 

 Pickering, founded upon observation of physical features, led 

 him to sound conclusions in the case of the Algonquin Ojibbe- 

 way, but was misleading in the extreme in that of the Cherokee, 

 who is a Turanian of the Turanians. Where the Maya-Quichds 

 and the Mbaya-Abipones landed it is hard to say, but in the case 

 of the former there seems to be historical evidence from their 

 own traditions that they once dwelt considerably to the north of 

 their Central American home. The Quiche mythology appears 

 to link the Malays of Yucatan and Guatimala with the Tagalas 

 of the Philippine Islands ; and if, as Dr. Pickering says, " San 

 Francisco is commonly regarded in Mexico as being on the route 

 to Manilla," we should find the landing place of the Maya-Quiche 

 colonists at ?orae point on the Northern Californian Coast. There 

 or farther north, probably in Oregon, where Dr. Pickering finds 

 his "second physical race of men," we should place the begin- 

 nings of Algonquin life in America. What part of the Malay- 

 Polynesian area they originally came from I am not yet in a 

 position to say; but that it was a Malay rather than a Polyne- 

 sian region seems evident from the forms lenni, Hnnon, ilenni, 

 alnew. renoes, etc, denoting man, forms which refer the ethno- 

 logist to Java, Borneo and the Moluccas group. In the Illinoans, 

 a tribe of Borneo, we may even find the parent stock of the Al- 

 gonquin Illinois, who have given their name to one of the United 

 States. From Borneo or some neighbouring region where Papuan 

 influences have more or less corrupted the verbal forms of Malay 

 speech, the Mbaya Abipones must have started for the Western, 

 but to them Eastern World. 



I have already stated that my knowledge of the tribes west of 

 the Rocky Mountains hardly justifies me in taking them into 

 account in this discussion of origins. There is one Oregon family, 

 however, that helps to carry the line of Malay migration across 

 the continent, to which I must briefly refer. With the Sahaptin 



