MIGRATIONS OF THE MONGOLIANS, 329 
Malays, the Mongols, and the Euplocomi; the first spread to 
the east, the second to the north, and the third westwards. 
The primeval home, or the “Centre of Creation,” of the 
Malays must be looked for in the south-eastern part of the 
Asiatic continent, or possibly in the more extensive 
continent which existed at the time when further India was 
directly connected with the Sunda Archipelago and eastern 
Lemuria. From thence the Malays spread towards the 
south-east, over the Sunda Archipelago as far as Borneo, 
then wandered, driving the Papuans before them, eastwards 
towards the Samoa and Tonga Islands, and thence 
gradually diffused over the whole of the islands of the 
southern Pacific, to the Sandwich Islands in the north, the 
Mangareva in the east, and New Zealand in the south. A 
single branch of the Malayan tribe was driven far west- 
wards and peopled Madagascar. 
The second main branch of primeval Malays, that is, the 
Mongols, at first also spread in Southern Asia, and, radiating 
to the east, north, and north-west, gradually peopled the 
greater part of the Asiatic continent. Of the four principal 
races of the Mongol species, the Indo-Chinese must perhaps 
be looked upon as the primary group, out of which at 
a later period the other Coreo-Japanese and Ural-Altaian 
races developed as diverging branches. The Mongols mi- 
grated in many ways from western Asia into Europe, where 
the species is still represented in northern Russia and 
Scandinavia by the Fins and Lapps, in Hungary by the 
kindred Magyars, and in Turkey by the Osmanlis. 
On the other hand, a branch of the Mongols migrated 
from north-eastern Asia to America, which was probably in 
earlier times connected with the former continent by a 
broad isthmus. Bee Arctic tribes, or Polar men, the Hyper- 
