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Malays, the Mongols, and the Euplocomi ; the first spread to 

 the east, the second to the north, and the third westwards. 



The primaeval home, or the " Centre of Creation," of the 

 Malays must be looked fot in the south-eastern part of the 

 Asiatic continent, or possibly in the more extensive 

 continent which existed at the time when further India was 

 directly connected with the Sunda Archipelago and eastern 

 Lemuria. From thence the Malays spread towards the 

 south-east, over the Sunda Archipelago as far as Borneo, 

 then wandered, driving the Papuans before them, eastwards 

 towards the Samoa and Tonga Islands, and thence 

 gradually diffused over the whole of the islands of the 

 southern Pacific, to the Sandwich Islands in the north, the 

 Mangareva in the east, and New Zealand in the south. A 

 single branch of the Malayan tribe was driven far west- 

 wards and peopled Madagascar. 



The second main branch of primaeval Malays, that is, the 

 ilongols, at first also spread in Southern Asia, and, radiating 

 to the east, north, and north-west, gradually peopled the 

 greater part of the Asiatic continent. Of the four principal 

 races of the Mongol species, the Indo-Chinese must perhaps 

 be looked upon as the primary group, out of which at 

 a later period the other Coreo-Japanese and Ural- Altaian 

 races developed as diverging branches. The Mongols mi- 

 grated in many ways from western Asia into Europe, where 

 the species is still represented in northern Russia and 

 Scandinavia by the Fins and Lapps, in Hungary by the 

 kindred Magyars, and in Turkey by the Osmanlis. 



On the other hand, a branch of the Mongols migrated 

 from north-eastern Asia to America, which was probably in 

 earlier times connected with the foi'mer continent by a 

 broad isthmus. The Arctic tribes, or Polar men, the Hyper- 



