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leading member of the Polynesian groups; at least, I do not understand 
that Mr. Thomson applies his theory to the whole of the Pacific Islanders, 
or perhaps, I am more accurate in saying, to the same extent, as in the 
New Zealanders. 
In this theory, Mr. Thomson, following, often in the same words, the 
very learned, but, to my mind, unsatisfactory views, of the late Mr. Logan, 
in the “Journal of the Indian Archipelago’’* has assumed, that, in remote 
ages, a much wider range of country was occupied by the dark skinned and 
woolly haired races ; in fact that they ranged over the whole of the plains 
of Hindostan, as well as over Africa, Madagascar, the Andaman Islands, 
New-Holland, and New Guinea, etc., indeed, as far as 170° E. long. Closely, 
on the northern flank of these dark men, were the energetic Aryans, who, at 
some time or other, forced their way so far west and north-west as Treland 
and Scandinavia, and the Tibetans—that is, the White and the Yellow races 
—both of whom, ultimately, though, probably, with an interval of many 
centuries between them, descended into India, the one by the Punjaub, 
Jumna, and Ganges, the other by the Brahmaputra. The result of these 
invasions was (though chiefly through the agency of the Tibetans, for the 
Aryans have never much influenced Southern India), the expulsion or, 
- more probably, the enslavement of the dark races, so far, at least, as India 
was concerned. I may add that it was a further view of Mr. Logan, that 
some of the castes in the South of India shew in their physiognomies 
a strongly marked African character, a proof, to his mind, that they are 
remnants of an Archaic formation of a still more decidedly African type. 
Thus, he says, the black Doms of Kamdon have hair much resembling wool. 
But how, one naturally asks, did they get to India? So far as we know, 
the genuine Negro of Africa has never been a navigating race: and the same 
thing may, I believe, be predicated of the Papuans and of most of the other 
Negritos; and though there may have been conquerors from India, who, 
reversing the fables of Sesostris and Semiramis, may have brought from 
Africa an entire slave population and settled them in India; as history is 
* The elaborate papers of Mr. Logan on this subject are in the fourth, fifth, and sixth 
volumes of that work (for 1850, 1, 2). Ido not see that, except in his researches in the 
Appendix to “Trans, N. Z. Insi.,” Vol. VI., Mr. Thomson has added much to what Mr. 
Logan gave to the world, 20 years ago—soon after which time, I remember reading them 
—while, he has, in many instances, adopted the exact words and phrases of Mr. Logan. 
Coming as they did from a man of such linguistic eminence as Mr. Logan, they, naturally, 
attracted much attention; it was, however, very generally thought, that his data were not 
sufficient for the very wide generalization he deduced from them. 
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