196 Mr Cravvfiu'd on Ihe 



banana and orange, tlie namei'ous fruits of tliat region were 

 wanting. 



The domesticated animals found in the South Sea Islands 

 were only the hog, the dog, and the common fowl. In none 

 of the languages, either of the brown, or negro races, are 

 the names of these animals, Malay, Javanese, or of any 

 other language of the Archipelago, except that of the Mari- 

 anne Islands, in which is found the Javanese word nianuhe^ 

 " a bird" or " fowl," the name for the common poultry in 

 the Philippine languages. 



Among the most frequent of the domesticated animals of 

 the Malayan Archipelago are the goat, the cat, and the duck ; 

 and had an easy communication existed between it and the 

 islands of the Pacific, they must, from their liardiness, have 

 been introduced ; but they are all three wanting. 



The absence of Malayan names for both plants and ani- 

 mals, supposing the plants and animals to have been derived 

 from the Indian Archipelago, would be the more remarkable 

 from the frequency of the same name, for these objects, in 

 the different Malayan languages themselves. Thus, for the 

 domestic dog, the Javanese name is found in ten other lan- 

 guages, and the Malay name for the domestic hog in forty 

 others. The name for the yam and for the sugar-cane is 

 almost as often repeated from one extremity of the Archi- 

 pelago to the other aS that of the hog. 



From the absence of Malayan names for plants and ani- 

 mals, and the absence of hardy plants and animals that might, 

 in a transit of ordinary facility, have been introduced from 

 the Malayan Archipelago into the islands of the Pacific, I 

 must infer that neither were introduced by the means through 

 which the Malayan language was communicated to those of 

 the Pacific. I conclude, on tlie same ground, that the voyages 

 were fortuitous and precarious, such as I have fancied them. 

 Had the plants or seeds of plants, and the animals, been 

 even on board the storm-driven priius, it is certain they 

 must have been devoured by the famishing crews as food. 



Although all the domesticated animals and cultivated 

 plants of the Islands of the South Sea, are common to the 

 Malay Islands, and all, I believe, indigenous in the latter, I 



