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fountain of the Polynesian race), the evidence leading to the following con- 

 clusions : — 1st. That Hindostan, as well as the Indian Archipelago, at one 

 time contained a negro population. 2nd. That waves of migration issued 

 from the South Peninsula, or Barata, east and west. 3rd. That no western 

 emigration ever proceeded out of Tamasak, or the south part of the penin- 

 sula of Malacca or Sumatra, so as to affect Madagascar. 4th. That the 

 progress of the Barata is traceable eastward by language to the Moluccas, 

 of which Ternati is the principal settlement. 5th. That the race was 

 modified in colom- and physiognomy by the incursions of the Mangians 

 and Annamese, but not in language. 6th. With the Moluccas as a basis, a 

 stream of the mixed race flowed eastward from island to island over Poly- 

 nesia, one branch finding its way to New Zealand via Tongataboo. 7th. 

 That Barata, or South India, was therefore the whence of the Maori. 



My second paper was on Barata numerals, in which, of many tribes, 

 I compared the numerals up to ten, scattered between Madagascar and 

 Easter Island. The interesting fact which this enquiry divulged was to 

 this effect : that within the regions occupied by the Barata race — of which 

 the Maori is a portion — the more remote or primitive the tribes the greater 

 was the analogy of dialect. Thus a remote tribe, the Lampong, occupying 

 a portion of the interior of Sumatra, have their ten numerals identical with 

 Maori ; Madagascar has nine identical ; so also have Tagala, Papango, and 

 Mindanao, in the Philippines, and so forth ; while the more accessible Malay 

 has only five identical, Acheen only six, etc. 



Of this subject I then remarked, that I hoped I had satisfactorily shown 

 that the first ten numerals (in as far as their evidence was valuable) tend to 

 prove the intimate connection that subsisted between an archaic race that 

 spread over nearly two-thirds of the circumference of the globe, and in 

 which expansion the Malay had no connection,* but the ethnological 

 phenomenon was due solely to the illustrious Barata. 



My next paper was philological, in which I scrutinized the structure of 

 the languages of several of the leading races, glossarially, idiomatically, 

 and phonetically — comparing first, Maori with Tongan ; second, Maori 

 with the many dialects of the Indian Archipelago ; third, Malagas! with 

 Malay ; fourth, Maori with Malay ; and lastly, the Murihiku dialect. New 

 Zealand, with races in the Indian Archipelago. 



The general conclusion arrived at fi-om the evidence brought out was, 

 that had Madagascar not existed, or had it not been populated by its present 

 race, our search for the whence of the Maori as we proceeded westward, 

 might have stopped at the Silong tribe of Mergui, on the eastern shores of 

 the Bay of Bengal ; but the above circumstances we have set forth, force us 



* Excepting as a tribe or offshoot. 



