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Dayack. The people of the Andaman islands 

 are evidently of the same race. The Papuas still 

 exist under different names, in the interior of 

 several of the Malayan islands, and it appears 

 that they formerly lived on all. They are fre- 

 quently mentioned in the early Arabian Voyages.* 



The Aetas, or Negritos del Monte, the Papuas 

 of the interior of the Philippine islands, are like- 

 wise aboriginal inhabitants of this archipelago, 

 Los Indios of the Spaniards. Those who are 

 whiter, are foreign conquerors ; and the names of 

 places which still exist along the coast in the lan- 

 guages of the Papuas, are monuments which they 

 have left behind them of their right of possession. 

 We find the same race of men again under similar 

 circumstances at Formosa ; and the history of 

 Japan mentions black inhabitants, who have been 

 met wdth on the islands of the southern coast of 

 Niphon.t 



We find the Austral negroes in almost undis- 

 turbed and undivided possession of New Guinea, 

 or the land of the Papuas, and the islands lying 

 more to the east, which, with the New Hebrides, 

 and New Caledonia, form the chain of forelands ; 

 and we recognise them in the tribes which Forster 

 enumerates in his second chief race of the South 

 Sea islanders, t 



* J. Leyden, Asiatic Researches, vol.x. p. 218. 

 t Mithridates, First Part, p. 569. 

 J J. R, Forster, Observations, p. 238. 

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