166 Transactions,— Miscellaneous, 
are detected, and none such as would indicate connection. The Barata 
language must therefore be held to be a purely tropical one, its offshoots 
seldom extending above thirty degrees from the equator. With Chinese, 
exceptional analogies have been found, but these are either doubtful or 
accidental. 
A fit sequel to this present paper (I suggest) will be E in Appendix 
IL, where I have compared the languages of the Malayan Archipelago with 
that of Samoa or the Navigators Islands in Polynesia. I am enabled to do 
this by the recent publication of a Samoan Grammar and Dictionary, by 
the Rev. George Pratt, edited by the Rev. S. J. Whitnee, F.R.G.S. This 
portion of the subject is the more interesting as Samoa is the reputed 
Hawaiki * of the Maori. 
It will be observed by the comparative vocabulary given in Appendix II, 
that all objects known in the Samoan Islands and the Malay Archipelago 
are, almost without exception, represented radically by the same words in 
either region. Objeets unknown to the Polynesian as a matter of course are 
not represented—such as deer, gold, honey, iron, monkey, ete. And the 
locality where these Malayo-Polynesian affinities exist is not difficult to 
point out, viz., the Moluccas; thus of the 94 analogies represented, 24 
are found in Ceram, 11 in Matabello, 7 in Borou, 7 in Amboyna, 7 in 
Sula Islands, 7 in Sangair, 6 in Celebesi. Again of the 114 words 
contained in the whole list only 26 are Malay. Thus on our premises 
we would infer that the population of Samoa was not directly derived 
from Malaya (Sumatra or Malay Peninsula) but from the Moluccas, In 
other words, in the diffusion of the blood of the Barata race, while Malaya 
may have acted as a vein or path—the Moluccas acted as a gland or 
stepping-stone. 
For this purpose no region could be more appropriate than the Mol- 
uceas, for here were the spices and rare birds so attractive to commerce, to 
be found. From time immemorial here would be the great rendezvous of 
Barat, that is, western adventurers and conquerers, and from whence their 
more enterprising spirits would venture further east. Thus, if it be said 
that the Moluccas were the stepping-stone to Barata emigration, so also is 
it said that Samoa was the focus of Polynesian dispersion. 
That we have not found a language in the Malayan Archipelago com- 
pletely analogous to Samoan is consistent with our theory—for in the 
preceding part of our paper neither has there been found a language in 
Hindustan completely consistent with the Malagas-malayo-polynesian dia- 
lects. In both cases, however, the unquestionable evidence of root or fossil 
* Query; Hawa-iki, literally small harbour, or coral reef opening, 
+ See Appendix III. 
