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wholly silent on this point, I cannot go the length of accepting, still less of 
proposing, so wild an hypothesis. Not the least objection I have always felt 
to most of Mr. Logan’s theories—as distinguished from his extraordinary 
linguistic knowledge, is the prodigious length of time required for working 
them out. It is true, that if the Logan-Thomson views could be proved, 
some of the difficulties of the ‘‘ whence” of the Negrito Island races would 
be got rid of—for, in such a case, one might suppose the ‘“ Melanesian ”’ 
occupation of Timor, Gilolo, ete., due to their expulsion by the Yellow man 
from India; and, further, that the Yellow tribes, now, generically, called 
Malays, may be descendents of those Tibetans (to call them so ex appear) 
who, coming down from Central Asia into India, drove the dark skinned 
people before them. I am not called on here to discuss this question ; nor, 
indeed, would it be possible to do so, within the limits of any one paper ; 
but it is worthy of remark, that, though, in some of the islands, the wild 
dwellers in the inmost fastnesses are as fair as the Malay coast-men, in 
other islands the dark people have been evidently forced back into the 
interior, while the yellow races have secured the sea shores and, with these, 
all the trade of the neighbourhood. Hence, there is no wmprobability in the 
idea, that the Yellow men did effect certain conquests over the Negroes, 
though it does not follow that India itself was ever populated by a purely 
Negro race.* 
With regard to the Maoris, Mr. Thomson thinks (as judged by their 
features) that they are « clearly a cross,’’ with affinities to the Dravidian or 
oldest inhabitants of the South of India. But this view is, obviously, at 
variance with the Negro theory—for the Dravidians are certainly descen- 
dents of a Yellow race,} who, according to it, drove the Negro people out of 
* I may as well notice here, that the presumed Negro occupation of India could not 
have been called the “ Barata Kingdom ” (more correctly Bharata) as Mr. Thomson at 
Teast implies, in his subsequent paper on the “ Barata Numerals” (“ Trans. N. Z. Inst.,” 
Vol. V.) Bhérata-varsha. (* Bharata Kingdom”) is a title essentially and purely 
Sanskrit, and could not have been applied to any Negro dominion. Bhérata was the son 
of Dushyanta, and India was, hence, called his kingdom. 
| Professor Max Miiller long since in “ Bunsen’s Philosophy of Universal History,” 
Vol. L, London, 1854, demonstrated the close connexion between the Dravidian or 
Nishada races and the so-called Turanian population of Central Asia; and his views have 
been completely confirmed by Dr. Caldwell’s admirable Dravidian Grammar (2nd Edition, 
- 1875). Though possibly connected with the Finns, the Lapps, and Samoiedes of the 
North or with the Basques of the South, they have, assuredly, no Negro affinities. Nor, 
without much more information about the ‘Tamil books ” that Logan has referred to, 
should I venture to conclude, that the people with “ tufted hair” said to be mentioned in 
them, were what we understand by ‘ Negroes 
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