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to proceed across the bay and point out, as I did in my former paper, that 

 peninsula — fecund of people — viz., South Hindostan, alone commanding all 

 possible eastern or western migrations, as the only possible whence of the 

 Maori. 



Here then ended my enquiries for the time, the conclusion was one 

 decided by physical geography, supplemented only by ethnological and 

 philological data ; but I often asked myself : What of Hindostan itself ? 

 What of the Land of Barat, as the Malays term it ? Are there no remnants 

 of that archaic language in it, so as to corroborate this fine theory of the 

 " whence of the Maori " being there ? It occurred to me, that if I could 

 bring the evidence of languages contained in fossil words, this would be satis- 

 factory, in fact it would make my theory incontrovertible. 



I had no opportunity to effect this desirable end till I went home lately 

 on leave of absence, during which time, while in London, I gathered the 

 material from various sources as stated in my last paper. From this 

 material, which is found in the several vocabularies of the various primitive 

 tribes that yet inhabit Hindostan, there were abundant proofs of intimate 

 connection with the languages of Malaya, Polynesia, Madagascar, and even 

 eastern Africa, in other words, with the wide-spread Barata race. It was 

 then remarked by me that Hindostan is now overrun by two distinct sections 

 of the human race, viz., Indo-Germanic, or Aryan and Turanian, or, in other 

 words, the one Caucasian, the other Turanian ; the one occupying the 

 western and northern regions, the other the southern and eastern. And, in 

 overrunning Hindostan, have they extirpated the primitive races ? Not 

 entirely ; many of these remain, much modified, it is true, in colour and 

 physiognomy, but little in language. The roots of a layxguage die only with a 

 tribe's extirpation. Hence it is not in the languages of the intruding sec- 

 tions that we have found the Barata fossil words, but for the most part in 

 the various small tribes yet preserved in the obscure portions of their terri- 

 tory, difficult of access, such as under the Himalaya, Jynteah, and Nilgherry 

 mountains. In these, the undeleted glossarial remains of what had been 

 the language of a numerous people once inhabiting the fertile plains, we 

 have witnesses to facts and conditions of nations long since past, and pre- 

 ceding historic record. 



As to this, my last paper, I may state that so far as it goes it sub- 

 stantiates the conclusions of those preceding ; there being 261 analogies in 

 Hindostan of the 22 words selected from five Malagas-Malayo-Polynesian 

 dialects. Further, in comparing these, as I have done, with the Aryan, 

 Mongolian, or Semitic, or other Asiatic races — ancient or modern — no 

 analogy can be detected. 



In this paper, giving 22, and my last, 43, making 65 primary words (a 

 large portion in an aboriginal language), of which there were 261 and g35 



