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a derivation to most other Asiatic races. The Japanese, who bear physicallj- a close resem- 

 blance to their coiitiueutal neighbours, doubtless mingled to some extent with the abori- 

 ginal Amos, whom they dispossessed. The terms " Malayo-Chinese " and " ludo-China" 

 speak for themselves. " Malaysia," says de Quatrefages, " presents a perfect mixture of 

 most different races from the white to the negro." ' Winchell supposes the original Malay 

 centre to have been " the peninsula on the south-east of Asia, or the islands contiguous, or 

 perhaps, a continental region which has been reduced by geological denudation to some 

 insular relics of itself" This certainly leaves us an amplitude of choice, but the fact is 

 that the Malays have spread so far and wide from their primal home and have blended 

 their blood with so many races, that it is impossible to ascertain where they first appeared. 

 We find their characteristics in greater or less strength from Madagascar to the Sandwich 

 Islands. The Polynesians diverge farthest from the Mongolian type, while the sub-race 

 of the Micronesians fiides, in one direction into well marked Malays, and in the other, into 

 the Papuan tj'pe." 



The ethnology of India presents abundant evidence of miscegenation since the earliest 

 times. The earliest page of its history discloses. Dr. Hunter tells us, two races 

 struggling for the mastery — one, the fair-skinned Aryans from Central Asia, the most 

 eastern representatives of the great Indo-European stock ; the other, of lower type, long- 

 in possession of the country, and which the new-comers stigmatized in turn as non- Aryans, 

 enemies, and slaves of black descent. These primitive predecessors of the Aryans had no 

 records, and their traditions do not tell us much, but such hints as they yield point north- 

 ward.-' Their language indicates that the early peoples of India belonged to three great 

 families — the Tibeto-Burman and the Kolarian, who entered Bengal from the north-east, 

 and the Dravidian, who, coming from the north-west, rushed forth in a mighty mass 

 which no foes could resist, and spread themselves over the south of the peninsula. How 

 manifold was the composition of the non- Aryan inhabitants of India may be gathered from 

 the fact that their principal languages and dialects, of which a list was prepared a few 

 years ago for the Iloyal Asiatic Society, number a hundred and forty-two. Their physical 

 and moral characteristics are alike various. From the taint of alien mixture, no people 

 ever took so much pains to preserve themselves as did the Aryans of India. To that end 

 caste was a powerful aid, and yet it did not prove quite effectual. The new-comers 

 formed alliances in time with the more advanced of the aborigines. Greek, Scythian and 

 the later invasions have also played an important part in modifying the population. The 

 coming of Alexander the G-reat was, like the subsequent conquest by the British, an 

 unconscious meeting again of long-parted kinsmen. After the conqueror's death, a Grteco- 

 Bactriau realm preserved the marks of Greek civilization for several generations, but, re- 

 mote from Hellenic influences and gradually corrupted by alien admixture, the Greek 

 stock in time declined and finally disappeared altogether. Bactrian coins, as M. Francis 

 Pulzky informs us, in his " Iconographie Researches,"^ show the process of degeneration in 

 successive princes and the inferior character of the later to the earlier workmanship. 

 Eucratides (B.C. 175) is Greek in feature. The likeness of Hermueus keeps up the prestige 

 of a dynasty of Greeks, but Kadphyses, both in his name and features, as well as in the 



' Tlic Human Species, \>. 163. '■' Preadamite.s, pp. .57, 58, .5!>. 



'■' Dr. \V. Hunter: The Indian Empire, p. 79. ' Indigenous Races of the Earth, p. 169. 



