﻿2 8 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



give several quotations (" Journal of Ethnological Society," London). By an 

 analysis of a Malagasi dictionary, consisting of 8,000 words, he discovered 

 140 to be Malayan, or l-57th part of the whole ; 60 of the Malayan words 

 were of natural objects, and 13 were numerals. Of the Tagala language 

 (Philippine), in a dictionary containing 12,000 words, he found 77 to be 

 Malayan, 20 to be Javanese, and 150 to be common to both languages. This 

 gives a proportion of 32 words to the 1,000. There were also 24 Sancrit 

 terms. Of the Bisayan language (also Philippine), in a dictionary containing 

 9,000 words, 72 were Malayan, 17 Javanese, and 197 common to both, 

 making about 30 in 1,000. There were also 13 Sancrit terms. Of the Maori 

 language of New Zealand, in a dictionary of 5,500 words, 107 were Malay, 

 making about 20 to the 1,000. Of the Negro languages of the Andaman 

 Islands and Keddah, or Queda, he remarks that he found in their vocabularies no 

 two words alike; this was also the case with the Papuan language of Wajeou 

 (near New Guinea). This dissimilarity he states to be the case with all Negro 

 and Papuan tribes. Comparing also the languages of the islands in the Torres 

 Straits with those of Malicolo, Tanna, and New Caledonia, no two words were 

 found to be common. Further, he found no Malayan word in any of the 

 languages of Australia ; this fact he accounts for by the low social state of the 

 latter. 



Crawfurd has scarcely touched on the phonology and ideology of the 

 languages reviewed, which is to be regretted, and he evidently ascribes the 

 possession of common words by various races over so large a portion of the 

 world to Malayan origin, disseminated by tempest-driven proas, and other 

 accidents of the sea, a theory adverse to the conclusions arrived at in this 

 paper. 



Having availed myself hitherto of so much of the materials collected by 

 prior writers, I now proceed to a portion that is more peculiai'ly my own. 

 During my long sojourn in the East Indies I made di-a wings of various 

 individuals of several tribes, with no intention of ever bringing them to any 

 use further than for the amusement of home friends, but as they serve, in 

 some measure, to illustrate my paper of this evening, I will now refer to them. 

 Commencing at the westerly range of the Negro, viz., Africa : — 



Bashier, of Muscat, a native of Central Africa, presents a specimen of 

 the coal-black type. 



Furham and Barrahk, of Zanzibar, are of mixed race or Arabo-Negros. 

 Next are two men and one woman of the Sumnali tribe, natives of the 

 Straits of Babelmandeb, of brown complexion. The men especially are very 

 lanky, figure approaching to the physical form of the Arab, yet otherwise 

 having all the characteristics of the Negro. 



Next is a Pariah of the Coromandel Coast of South Hindostan, a nearly 



