GENERAL FEATURES OF MALAYSIA 21 



That the Negritos are the true autochthones of ludo- 

 China and Western Mahaysia ; the Papuans of Eastern 

 Malaysia and Western Polynesia. 



That Indo-China, at some very remote period, became 

 occupied first by a fair Caucasian race, and later by a yellow 

 Mongoloid people. The latter is now represented by the 

 Burmese, Siamese, Laos, Annamese, etc., speaking mono- 

 syllabic toned languages, and the former by the Kambojans, 

 Chams, Kuys, and various hill-tribes, speaking polysyllabic 

 untoned languages. 



That from these two races have sprung all the peoples — 

 other than Negritos and Papuans — now occupying the entire 

 Eastern Archipelago from Sumatra to the farthest jwint of 

 Polynesia. 



That the earliest Avave of immigration was previous to the 

 advent of the Mongol race, and furnished the archipelago 

 with a people of nearly pure Caucasian stock, of whom the 

 Mentawi islanders of western Sumatra and the Eastern 

 Polynesians (Samoans, Tongans, Maoris, Tahitians, etc.) are 

 now the only representatives. 



That later waves of immigration, after part fusion of 

 Mongol and Caucasian, brought in a mixed people, but with 

 a preponderance of Caucasian blood — the " Pre-Malays " or 

 " Indonesians " of various writers — who are widely represented 

 in the archipelago (Battaks, Dyaks, etc.) 



That at a still later period what is now known as the 

 Malay race developed itself, the Mongol blood predominating. 

 Of this people the Malays of the peninsula, the Javanese, 

 Sundanese, Ache tribes of Sumatra, and Tagals and Bisayans 

 of the Philippines may, among numerous others, be mentioned 

 as examples. It will thus be noticed that the Malay is not 

 ethnically distinct, but a mixture of two races. 



These views of Professor Keane ha^ve been accepted 

 by many, as they appear to afford a tolerably complete 

 explanation of the difficulties with which the question 

 has been hitherto surrounded. There is in any case no 

 doubt as to the radical distinctness of the Malays and 

 the " brown Polynesians," and the term " Malayo-Poly- 



