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nearly related in every relped to the Tagaks in Lufon or Manilla, 



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fo that we may now trace the line of migration by a continued 

 line of ifles, the greater part of which are not above 1 00 leagues 

 diilant from each other. 



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. We likewife find a very remarkable fimilarity between feveral 

 words of the fair tribe of illanders in the South Sea, and fome of 

 the Malays. But it would be highly inconclufive from the fimi- 



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larity of a few words, to infer that thefe illanders were defcended 



from the Malay 



for 



the Malay 



words found in the 



Perfian, Malabar, Braminic, Cingalefe, Javanefe, and Malegafs, * 

 this fhould likewife imply, that the nations fpeaking the above 

 mentioned larJ-guages, were the offspring of the Malays, which 

 certainly would be proving too much. I am therefore rather in- 

 clined to fuppofe, that all thefe dialeds preferve feveral words of 



rfal 



and 



was 



a more antient language, which was more univ< 



gradually divided into many languages, now remarkably different, 



r 



The words therefore of the language of the South Sea ifles, which 

 ^re fimilar to others in the Malay tongue, prove clearly in my 



m 



Opinion, that the Eaflern South Sea ifles were originally peopled 



A, 



from the Indian, or Afiatic Northern ifles ; and that thofe lying 



more 



the Weflward 



eived thgir firfl inhab 



f 



rom 



the 



neighbourhood of New Guinea. 



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* ileliind's DiiTertatloncs Mifcellanea;, vol. iil. 



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