J. T. Tuomson.—On Barata Numerals. 135 
Tagala, Papango, and Mindanao, are identical with the Malagasi, which is 
also the case with the island of Savu, near Timor, and Dory, in New 
Guinea. i 
What do these facts, as far as they go, tend to prove ? This ; they serve 
as another proof to the theory that I have already advanced from other data, 
that one tropical race, a negro one, had in archaic times power and vitality 
to extend its off-shoots and language from the centre, ùe., Barata (ancient Hin- 
dostan) westward as far as Madagascar, and eastward as far as Easter Island ; 
and that the most remote branches of the race should now speak languages 
more similar than those near the centre is consistent with what ethnological 
inquiry teaches us to have taken place in the Eastern Archipelago, viz., that 
the languages in that middle distance between the extremes of migration have 
been affected (though not radically) by the incursions of Arian, Thibetan, 
and other continental races. 
Tt will thus be seen that the numerals of one archaic race have extended 
over 200° of longitude, a distance only surpassed by the transcendent efforts 
of the modern British, and as the Malay race has come in intimate comparison 
with their predecessors (the Barata) by their having occupied a portion of the 
middle distance, viz., between 100° and 140° of longitude, and though limited 
to 40°, or one-fifth of the space, yet, it being a very important part, some 
allusion is necessary to estimate the nature of their connection, if any exists. 
On reference to the table, it will be seen that of the ten numerals five only of 
the Malay are similar to the Maori, and six are similar to the Malagasi. This 
removes the Malay to the same distance from the archaic numerals, as those of 
the Timor and Arru groups, geographically connected rather with Australia 
than the Eastern Archipelago; such being the case the connection is but 
very distant. ` 
Some of the ruder tribes, such as those of New Caledonia, Malicolo, and 
Tanna, will be seen to only count as far as five, and this, in prehistoric times, 
seems also to have been the case with the archaic Malay. Such was his crude 
advancement in the science of figures; so we may conclude that while the Malay 
was a rude savage in the interior of Sumatra, the Barata race occupied the 
Malacca Strait—the gate of Africa, India, and Polynesia—and advanced to the 
height of his power and expansion till the inroads of the Arian and Thibetan 
extruded him from his peninsular seat and eliminated his race and language 
from the country of his origin. 
The first six numerals, excepting the third, will be seen to be almost 
identical in all the races of Madagascar, the Indian Archipelago, and Polynesia: 
In Malay the numeral three, or tiga, entirely differs from these, and the sixth 
may have been derived from the Barata term, which has been universally 
adopted by the adjacent tribes, viz, the Acheens, Lampongs, Battas, and 
