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the comparatively recent period when a great disrup- 

 tion of the land occurred in those latitudes, or the 

 present conditions of the coasts were completed, still 

 the presence of a more ancient or a more purely typical 

 race, on the centre and on the west coast of the two 

 first mentioned islands, seem to prove that these were 

 anterior, and the Malays only the second or more pro- 

 bably the third source of the present population. 



Preceding the arrival of the Malays, there was al- 

 ready extant, as the scattered fragments of the former 

 population prove, the Oriental Negro stock, both on 

 the continent and in the islands ; and coeval with the 

 first mentioned tribes, the black Hindoo mixed Cau- 

 casian stem seems likewise to have been urged to the 

 same coasts. Thus, the adulteration of the woolly haired 

 stock was effected in two directions, and the Malay 

 stem, apparently resulting from the union of Caucasian 

 with Mongolic tribes, caused that great variety of 

 feature, complexion, and form, which it is known to 

 possess, without therefore obliterating the perceptible 

 sub-typical general resemblance which constitutes the 

 characteristic marks of the whole race. If the Malays 

 were a real typical stock, they would likewise possess a 

 nucleus, or centre of existence, exclusively adapted for 

 their permanent abode, whereas the contrary is clearly 

 shown, by the presence of unadulterated races, and 

 mixed tribes of the other two stocks, in both conditions 

 suited to the same geographical region. This circum- 

 stance likewise indicates the probability of a great 

 atmospheric change in relation to Man, after a diluvian 



