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to proceed across the bay and point out, as I did in my former paper, that 
peninsula—fecund of people—viz., South Hindostan, alone commanding all 
possible eastern or western migrations, as the only possible whence of the 
aori. i 
Here then ended my enquiries for the time, the conclusion was one 
decided by physieal geography, supplemented only by ethnological and 
philological data; but I often asked myself: What of Hindostan itself? 
What of the Land of Barat, as the Malays term it? Are there no remnants 
of that archaic language in it, so as to corroborate this fine theory of the 
" whence of the Maori" being there? It occurred to me, that if I could 
bring the evidence of languages contained in fossil words, this would be satis- 
factory, in fact it would make my theory incontrovertible. 
I had no opportunity to effect this desirable end till I went home lately 
on leave of absence, during whieh time, while in London, I gathered the 
material from various sources as stated in my last paper. From this 
material, which is found in the several vocabularies of the various primitive 
tribes that yet inhabit Hindostan, there were abundant proofs of intimate 
connection with the languages of Malaya, Polynesia, Madagascar, and even 
eastern Africa, in other words, with the wide-spread Barata race. It was 
then remarked by me that Hindostan is now overrun by two distinct sections 
of the human race, viz., Indo-Germanie, or Aryan and Turanian, or, in other 
words, the one Caucasian, the other Turanian ; the one occupying the 
western and northern regions, the other the southern and eastern. And,in 
overrunning Hindostan, have they extirpated the primitive races? Not 
entirely ; many of these remain, much modified, it is true, in colour and 
physiognomy, but little inlanguage. The roots of a language die only with a 
tribe's extirpation. Hence it is not in the languages of the intruding sec- 
tions that we have found the Barata fossil words, but for the most part in 
the various small tribes yet preserved in the obscure portions of their terri- 
tory, difficult of access, such as under the Himalaya, Jynteah, and Nilgherry 
mountains. In these, the undeleted glossarial remains of what had been 
the language of a numerous people once inhabiting the fertile plains, we 
have witnesses to facts and conditions of nations long since past, and pre- 
ceding historie record. : 
As to this, my last paper, I may state that so far as it goes it sub- 
stantiates the conclusions of those preceding ; there being 261 analogies in 
Hindostan of the 22 words selected from five Malagas-Malayo-Polynesian 
dialects. Further, in comparing these, as I have done, with the Aryan, 
Mongolian, or Semitic, or other Asiatic races—ancient or modern—no 
analogy can be detected. 
In this paper, giving 22, and my last, 43, making 65 primary words (a 
large portion in an aboriginal language), of which there were 261 and 235 
