CHAP. XL.] IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 453 



Pacific; and though along the Ime of junction intermi- 

 gration and coinmixture have taken place, yet the divi- 

 sion is on the whole almost as well defined and strongly 

 contrasted, as is the corresponding zoological division 

 of the Archipelago, into an Indo-Malayan and Austro- 

 Malayan region. 



I must briefly explain the reasons that have led me 

 to consider this division of the Oceanic races to be a true 

 and natural one. The Malayan race, as a whole, un- 

 doubtedly very closely resembles the East Asian popu- 

 lations, from Siam to Mandchouria. I was much struck 

 with this, when, in the island of Bali I saw Chinese 

 traders who had adopted the costume of that country, 

 and who could then hardly be distinguished from Malays ; 

 and, on the other hand, I have seen natives of Java who, 

 as far as physiognomy was concerned, would pass very 

 well for Chinese. Then, again, we have the most typical 

 of the Malayan tribes inhabiting a portion of the Asiatic 

 continent itself, together with those great islands which, 

 possessing the same species of large Mammalia with tlie 

 adjacent parts of the continent, have in all probability 

 formed a connected portion of Asia during the human 

 period. The Negritos are, no doubt, quite a distinct race 

 from the Malay ; but yet, as some of them inhabit a 

 .portion of the continent, and others the Andaman Islands 

 in the Bay of Bengal, they must be considered to have 



