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ever, tlie present intention of the writer to go deeply into the subject. 

 Only a few thoughts and excogitations will be here set doAvn. 



(1.) That the race is one throughout the numerous islands in the Pacific 

 Ocean where the language is spoken. (Vide par. 49.) 



(2.) That from its original wide separation into groups, sufficient time 

 must be allowed for the perfect grammatical construction and full develop- 

 ment of its leading dialects ; the growth of its many and varied habits, 

 customs, and manufactures ; and the slow change and product of its various 

 mythologies and traditions. 



(3.) That notwithstanding their long and sanguinary wars among them- 

 selves from time immemorial, prior to their discovery by Europeans, the 

 respective islands were teeming with population. 



(4.) That while some have supposed the race to have sprung from the 

 Malays, from a very slight physical resemblance, a.nd from the likeness of 

 a Jew words of their language, there is quite as much, if not a greater, 

 physical resemblance between the race and the people of Madagascar, on the 

 opposite side of the globe, whose language also contains a few words and 

 sentences which are identical. 



(5.) That, with the exception of the Islands of New Zealand, which are 

 the farthest south, the race is almost exclusively found in the easternmost 

 isles and groups of the Pacific, and not in the numerous isles nearest to the 

 Malays. 



(6.) That it would have been impossible for any regular migration to have 

 ever taken place from the Malays to the Polynesia.n islands, owing to the 

 frailness of their shipping, and to the prevailing trade winds and equatorial 

 currents being contrary. 



(7.) That the Malays were found by Cook and the earlier navigators 

 to know the use of iron and other metals, and invariably to chew betel, 

 drink palm wine (toddy) , smoke, cook in earthen pots, live in partitioned 

 houses, and to be strict monogamists ; none of which national habits and 

 customs, nor the knowledge of any .metal, has been detected among the 

 Polynesians. 



(8.) That the near resemblance or even identity of a few {quasi) 

 Malayan words prove really little, when it is considered (ci) that those 

 words only obtain among the sea-coast natives of Malaya ; and (b) that the 

 same words are found more or less in use in the sea coasts of Java, Sumbawa, 

 and the Philippine and other isles, including even Madagascar. May it not 

 therefore be reasonably inquired, whether those few words might not rather 

 have reached those several JSTorthern Asiatic isles from Polynesia, than vice 

 versa ? 



(9.) That the language spoken by the Polynesian race has no affinity with 



