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Further, that many of these words should also be preserved in Africa is 
not to be wondered at, seeing that the negro race had in archaic times such 
large expansion* over all the regions under review, and between whose 
tribes and nations there has been immemorial intercourse. 
The question still remains—from what part of Hindustan did these great 
Island Tribes emanate? The reply will be best made by reference to the 
accompanying map (pl. IV). It will be seen from this that Hindustan is now 
overrun by two distinct sections of the human race—viz., Indo-Germanic or 
Aryan and Turanian; or, in other words, the one Caucasian, the other 
Mongolian; the one occupying the western and northern regions, the other 
the southern and eastern ; and in overrunning Hindustan have they extir- 
pated the primitive races? not entirely ; many of these remain, much modi- 
fied, it is true, in colour and physiognomy, but little in language. The 
roots of a language die only with the tribe’s extirpation. Hence, it is not 
in the languages of the intruding sections that we have found the Barata 
fossil words ; but, for the most part, in the various small tribes, yet pre- 
served in the obscure portions of their territory, difficult of access, such as 
under the Himalaya, Jynteah and Nilgherry mountains. In these, the 
undeleted glossarial remains of what had once been the language of a 
numerous people, we have witnesses fo facts and conditions of nations long 
since past and preceding historie record. 
Small tribes may have found their way towards the Tropies by divers 
routes, and partieularly by those through the Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim 
coast and islands, but the section or nation that spread its influence, girdling 
two-thirds of this globe, could not have been one or more of these. 
It is to South India, therefore, that we mustlook. For the inhabitants 
of this region have from times immemorial carried on trading expeditions, 
westerly to Africa and easterly to the Moluccas, a circumstance that can 
neither be stated of the natives of the rest of Hindustan nor of any of the 
Malayan states. The original seat of the great Barata race can then be 
only fairly sought for or denoted in South India, which commands the 
routes east to Malayo-Polynesia, west to Madagascar, and whose population, 
eminently maritime, were competent to the task of navigation. Thus we 
are led to the same conclusion as stated in my previous essays. | 
In my researches I have had to scrutinise the Sanscrit terms, several of 
the Asiatic and Afriean-Arabie dialects, Bask, Finnie, Magyar, Turkish, 
Circassian, Georgian, Mongolian, Muntshu and Japanese languages, without 
ding analogies. I have also examined twenty languages of Australia, 
and, amongst these, instances of but very exceptional and remote affinities 
* See Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1871, p. 32, + See Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1871, p. 36, 
t Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1871, p. 48, 
