2 THE ETHNOtiRAPHY OF LKPKUSY, KTC. 



The Pacific Islands we have not yet had an opportunity of visit- 

 ing, but CaUfornia, a new centre of Lsprosy is well known to us. 

 IJundreds of correspondents have assisted us in our labours, and 

 to them we tender our best thanks. We purposely left out 

 Australia hoping some other investigator would take up the 

 question. The area we had to deal witli wa,y already too large, 

 as we found to our cost. 



"With regard to the Pacific Islands our information is far 

 from complete. Many of them are so isolated, communication 

 is so scanty, trained observers are so few that it will be some years 

 before anything like a complete answer to our en(iuiries can be 

 obtained. Nevertheless, the information at hand is such that 

 further evidence can only strengthen our argument, and paint 

 the picture we present, in gloomier colours. 



It does not seem advisable to wait for this corroborative 

 ■evidence before bringing our results before the scientific public. 

 I shall omit all purely medical ([uestions, and deal only with the 

 racial aspects of the question, with which I alone had to deal. 



Ethnograpy of the Area. — The area dealt with is complex 

 in its ethnography. Without entering into scientific niceties, 

 it may be sufficient to say that the inhabitants comprise sections 

 ■of the White, Yellow, Brown and Plack races. The White 

 ■Caucasian is represented by the Cambodians, and indistinctly by 

 the Koreans and Ainos ; the Yellow Mongoloid by the Chinese, 

 Anamites and Siamese ; the Brown by the ^Malays and Indone- 

 •sians ; and the Black by the Negritoes aud Papuans. 



The racial history is somewhat as follows. The black races 

 originally held the whole of the East Indian Archipelago and 

 the Malay Peninsula, and have extended into the Pacific as far 

 as Fiji and New Caledonia. The Malays, who though classed 

 with the Mongoloids, difter greatly from them in form, feature, 

 •custom and mental traits, seem to have spread from the Malay 

 Peninsula southwards, and settling in Sumatra, attained a con- 

 siderable degree of ciilture. Thence they havc' spread all over 

 the coast regions of the Archipelago, but have not penetrated far 

 inland. Before this pure Malay extension, however, the 

 Indonesians, a race of mixed Malay and Caucasian blood, invad- 

 ed the Archipelago, and drove back, and in many places exter- 



