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an ancient casting, so might easily have been brought from Tongataboo by the 

 first Maori immigrants, as noticed in the preceding part of this paper, and tlic 

 great expansion of the South Indian navigation prior to the advent of Europeans 

 on the scene would favour this view. At the same time, as no doubt the 

 vessels of the natives of India were not only captured in great numbers by the 

 Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Spanish, bvit used by them within these last 

 three centuries, the wreck to which the bell had belonged may have been 

 navigated by any of these natives, and been cast away on the shores of New 

 Zealand. The degree of interest which the Tamil bell brings to the subject 

 before us must evidently rest in its age, and of this we yet have too little 

 evidence to warrant strong opinions. Under the eye of a learned and expert 

 numismatologist of Indian experience, such as Prinsep, the relic would have 

 its value ultimately and correctly defined. If it proved to be as ancient 

 as I suppose it to be, then it would have an intimate connection with the 

 migrations of the Maori, and so hold a very high value. 



I would now ask attention to a map of the primary era (Map II.) which 

 defines the three main divisions of mankind in their s})ecial areas. Humanity 

 may be likened to clouds oir the face of the earth, having different colours ; 

 where the clouds intermingle, the colours graduate ; where one cloud over- 

 shadows the other, then the latter disajjpears. The dark colour shows the 

 original boundary of the Negro division, the yellow that of the Caucasian, and 

 the red that of the Mongolian. For the sake of perspicuity, we must now call 

 South India or Hindostan by its ancient name of Barata ; the south point 

 of India beyond the Ganges in like manner Tamasak ; and also South China, 

 Manji. The influence of the Arians and Thibetans on south coastal regions 

 has already been shown on an originally Negro population, and the wide 

 expansion of a language whose basis was Negro has also been shown, extending 

 from Barata to Madagascar on one side, and to the Moluccas on the other. 

 Under the ethnological experiences already detailed, what power could have 

 given to the Negro so wide an expansion 1 The power is not in himself, for he 

 has never been known to increase beyond the limits of a petty and disjointed 

 tribe. The Barata expansion can only be ascribed to the first infusion of the 

 energy drav/n from Central Asia, and from whence there has been a constant 

 flow, or tides of migration, if they may be so called. The Negro controlled, 

 propelled, and directed by such infusion, now named the Barata, was then 

 quite capable of issuing forth from the teeming plains of his native country 

 (always exuberant of life), and planting his race and language east and west 

 amongst a sparser and simpler cognate people. So wide an expansion as that 

 mentioned would be the work of centuries, and is properly called the primary 

 or opening era — the age when the Negroloid Barata was permitted undisturbed 

 to obtain the pi-ivileges of civilization — that is, to overrun and extrude other less 

 expert nations of his own coloui-. 



