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before, I am not at all convinced by the mass of erudition in Mr. Logan's 
papers, which I have gone through more than once with as much care as 
possible ; moreover I believe, that present physicists are, by no means satis- 
fied with reference to any near connection between the Negritos of the 
Islands and the genuine. Negroes of Africa, though their external resem- 
_ pblances are, at first sight, considerable. I feel therefore, inclined to sug- 
gest this further query—viz., Is it not quite as probable, on the whole, that 
what Mr. Thomson calls ‘ Bhirata numerals” are really those worked out, 
gradually, by the colonizing Yellow man, and that, if they are now found, 
also, in regions oceupied by the dark races, they have been forced upon the 
latter by the power, or possibly, by the intelligence of the former? At any 
rate, this hypothesis does not require the extreme length of time demanded for 
the Logan-Thomson theory. Nor, indeed, is it without some confirmation 
from what may be seen in Mr. Thomson’s own list of numerals (“ Trans. N. 
Z. Inst.,"’ Vol. V., p. 187)—for I observe, that, in New Caledonia and Arru, 
_ there areonly two numerals the same as those of the Maori; in Kissa and 
- Tenenbar, three; in Mallicolo and Tanna, and Vialo (Temi), four ; all of 
these islands being essentially parts of Melanesia. Supposing, therefore, no 
sufficient evidence adduced to the contrary, the presumption would, I think, 
be that these Negritos had acquired such of their numerals, as are similar 
to those in Polynesia, either by compulsion on the part of their Yellow 
neighbours or conquerors, or, in the course of commercial intercourse. No 
one would, I think, assume from such proportions, that the Maori numerals, 
and those of the other islands, believed to be in many ways cognate with 
New Zealand, were derived from the ancestors of these Melanesians. 
Again, if Mr. Thomson’s “ Bharata ” theory were true, we should naturally 
expect some resemblance—and a near one too—between these “‘ Bharata ”’ 
numerals and those of the languages connected more or less nearly with 
Tamil, the present representative language of the South of India—the Dra- 
vidian Tamils—having, agreeably with Mr. Thomson’s view,—sueceeded to 
the territorial possessions of the Negro race, they expelled—or, rather, being 
the actual Dravidian race (according to another of his suppositions) who 
have led to the “cross” he notices among the Maoris. All I can say, on 
this head, is that I have carefully examined the numerals in all the leading 
languages of Southern India, the Tamil, Canarese, Carnatiku, Telagu, ete. 
~—and, that T have not been able to detect even a solitary resemblance with 
any of those in Mr. Thomson’s list. If then, similarity of numerals be 
any real test of the connexion of races (which I do not at all assert to be the 
case) it is clear that Mr. Thomson’s argument for the existing numerals 
cannot be sustained as any evidence of the “ whence ” of the Maoris. If 
