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natives bf New Holland. But, what is ll:ill more convincing, their" causes 



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language is totally different, as evidently appears from the examination 

 of a vocabulary obligingly communic?ated to me by Capt. Cook. We 



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have therefore nothing left but to go further to the North, where 

 the South Sea ifles are as it were connedlcd with the Eall Indian 



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ifles. Many of thefe latter are inhabited by two different races of 

 men. Ip feveral of the Moluccas is a race of men, who are blacker 

 than the reft, with woolly hair, flender and tall, fpeaking a pecu- 



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liar language, and inhabiting the interior hilly parts of the coun- 

 tries; in feveral ifles thefe people are called Alfoories. * The 

 fliores of thefe ifles are peopled by another nation, whofe individu- 

 als are fwarthy, of a more agreeable form, with curled and long 

 ,hair, and of a different language, which is chiefly a branch or 

 dialect of the Malayan. In all the Philippines, the Interior moun 

 tainous parts, are inhabited by a black fet of people, v/ith frizzled 



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language different from that of their neighbours. 



But the out 



Ikirts towards the fea are peopled v/ith a race infinitely fairer, having 



hair, and fpeaking different languages : they are of various 



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denominations, but the Taga/es, FampangoSy and Bijfayas, arc 



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* Franc. Valcntyn Befchn-ving vmi Amboina, ii dcel. p. 71, — §4. and Dan. Bceckraau 

 Voyage to Borneo, p. 43. who calls the 'Aboriginal people on Borneo Bjajos. 



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