INTO FIVE VARIETIES. 4S9 



It Is called Malay *, because most of the tribes speak the 

 Malay language ; which may be traced, in the various 

 ramifications of tlus race, from Madagascar to Easter 

 Island, 



Under this variety, to which, in truth, no well-marked 

 common characters can be assigned, are included races of 

 men very diiFerent in organization and qualites ; too dif- 

 ferent indeed to be arranged with propriety under one and 

 the same division, but hitherto too imperfectly known for 

 the purposes of satisfactory arrangement. 



In that division of the abodes of this race, which may 

 be called the Southern Asiatic, or East-Indian islands, we 

 find at least two very different organizations ; namely, one 

 Negro-like, black, with strongly curled hair; another, of 

 brown or olive-colour, with longer hair. The first, regarded 

 as the aboriginal inhabitants, occupy some islands entirely, 

 but are found in the larger ones in the mountainous interior 

 parts, whither they seem to have been driven by the en- 

 croachments of new settlers. They resemble the African 

 Negroes in their black colour, woolly hair, and general for- 

 mation of the skull and features; and hence they are called, 

 by the Dutch writers, Negroes and Moors. They are dis- 

 tinguished, however, by their language, and by a copious 

 bushy beard. In Sumatra, they are called Batta; in Bor- 

 neo, Biajos ; in the Moluccas, Haraforas or Alfoeras ; in 

 the Philippines, Ygolotes. They are wild, barbarous, and 

 uncivilized, like their African kindred. 



Col. Symes, who visited the great Andaman Island on his 

 voyage to Ava, describes the natives as seldom exceeding 



* The term ' Malay,' says Mr. Marsden, like that of Moor' in the con- 

 tinent of India, is almost synonymous with' Mahomedan.' Ilist. of Sumatra, 

 Sd ed. p. 42. These people, he says, are supposed to have come from the 

 Peninsula of Malacca, and to have spread thence over the adjacent islands; 

 -whereas it is clearly proved that the Malays went from Sumatra to Malacca 

 in the 12th century; "and that the indigenous inhabitants, gradually 

 driven by them to the woods and mountains, so far from being the stock 

 from which the Malays were propagated, are an entirely diflVr; nt race of 

 mtMi, nearly approaching in their physical characters to the Negroes of 

 Africa." Ibid. 326. 



