448 SYSTEMS OF CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY 



CHAPTER V. 



SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIP OF TUE MALAYAN FAMILY. 



Continental and Island Life — Difl'erence in their Advantages for National Development — Malayan Family — Its 

 Principal Branches — Malayan System of Relationship — I. Polynesia. — 1. Hawaiian — Analysis of the System — 

 Consangninei Reduced to Great Classes — These Restricted to the Primary Relationship — The Malayan Realizes the 

 " Nine Grades" of the Chinese — System Classificatory — Lineal Line — Collateral Lines — Marriage Relationships 

 — Simplicity and Regularity of the System — Older than the Turanian — Latter prohably Engrafted upon it — The 

 Hawaiian Custom or Pinal iianic Bond — It Tends to Explain the Origin of the Malayan System of Relationship. 

 2. Maori of New Zealand — Details of the System — Identical with the Hawaiian. — II. Micronesian Form. 1. 

 Kusaien — Lineal Line — Collateral Lines — Marriage Relationships. 2. Kingsmill Island — Lineal Line — Collateral 

 Lines — Marriage Relations — Micronesian Form identical with the Hawaiian — Failure to procure System of Negroid 

 Nations — HI. Aniazulu or Kafir — Zulu-Kafir Language — Their System of Relationship — Lineal Line — Collateral 

 Lines — Marriage Relationships — Agrees substantially with the Uawaiiau — The Amazulu concludes the Series of 

 Schedules. 



From continental to island life the change for the worse is very great with respect 

 to opportunities and incitements to progress. Primitive peoples, having the range 

 of a continent, must of necessity have commenced their career as fishermen, in 

 dependence upon this great primary source of human subsistence, and with but 

 incidental support from the proceeds of the hunt. In the course of time they 

 would learn to domesticate young animals captured in the chase, out of which 

 would come a discovery of the uses of flocks and herds, as a more abundant and 

 more invigorating means of subsistence. This again, in the lapse of time and 

 through migrations, would be followed by the discovery of cereals, and of the art 

 of cultivation, which would lead inevitably to village life, out of which would 

 spring the first germs of civilization. In addition to this known sequence of the 

 means of progress, the stages of which were doubtless separated from each other 

 by centuries and decades of centuries of time, every nation upon a continent 

 had one or more contiguous nations between whom and itself there was more or 

 less of intercourse. Amongst contiguous nations there would be a free propaga- 

 tion of arts and inventions, which would tend to the general advancement of society 

 throughout the entire area in which these influences were felt. Nations are apt to 

 share in the more important elements of each other's progress. 



On the other hand, the islands of the Pacific, except those adjacent to the main 

 land, may be likened to so many cages in which their insulated occupants were 

 shut in from external influences, as well as denied a knowledge of the uses of 

 flocks and herds and of the principal cereals. Intercourse, at most, was limited 

 to the inhabitants of particular groups of islands, who were thus compelled to 

 sustain their national growth upon the development of their own intelligence exclu- 

 sively, and without the great instruments of progress afforded by continental areas. 

 They were also denied the advantages of numbers which is a most important ele- 

 ment in the progress of human society. Under such circumstances it would be 



