INHABITANTS OF INDONESIA. 



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In the Sunda Islands and Celebes, as well as in a part of the Moluccas, the 

 dominant, if not the exclusive race, is the Malayan, which constitutes the bulk of 

 the population, or which at least has absorbed and assimilated most of the other 

 ethnical elements. But whatever resemblances they may present to each other 

 throughout the archipelago, these Malayan peoples are everywhere divided into 

 natural groups, according to the geographical environment, their diverse inter- 

 minglings, their diet and different degrees of barbarism or culture. 



The Malays, properly so called, who closely resemble those of the neighbouring 

 peninsula, and who have given their name to the whole race, occupy the coastlands 

 of Sumatra and Borneo, with the intermediate islands. The Javanese, as indicated 

 by their name, inhabit the greater part of Java, and have also spread farther east 



Fig. 26. — Inhabitants of Indonesia. 



Scale 1 : 45,000,000. 



LasC or urec^ wicb 



120° 



Malays of divers Indonesians 1 Annamites, 



nationalities. Batta, Dyak, 



Minahassa, Alfuru. 



Papuans. 



, 600 Miles. 



to the two islands of Bali and Lombok. The Sundanese dwell in the western 

 districts of Java, on the shores of the Sunda Strait separating that island from 

 Sumatra. The Bughis hold the south-western peninsula of Celebes as well as the 

 north coast, and all the adjacent islands. Lastly, each separate land has its more 

 or less pure or mixed populations, bearing an endless variety of tribal names. The 

 term " Alfuru," however, collectively applied in Celebes and farther east to all 

 the wild tribes driven from the coastlands to the interior, has no racial significance. 

 It simply indicates the social condition of the populations which have kept aloof 

 from the Mohammedan Malays, some of which are of lighter /complexion even 

 than the Javanese, while others resemble in colour and aspect the dark Papuans 

 of New Guinea. 



