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not more than 3,000 to 4,000 can be attributed to Saxon origin ; while the 

 Maori Dictionary contains 5,600, of which upwards of 100 are Malay. 



Sanscrit and Hindu are the connecting links between European and 

 Polynesian languages, but not as regards their roots, only abstract or secondary 

 terms having been imprinted in the latter. Yet it is notable that the 

 number two runs through all, and in several cases there ai-e analogies. The 

 strong analogies between Hindu and Greek cannot have escaped the notice of 

 even those but partially acquainted with them. 



Summing up the evidence, therefore, before us, we are led to conclude : — 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 Penin- 

 sula, or Barata, east and west. 3rd. That no western emigration ever proceeded 

 out of Tamasak, or the south part of the Peninsula 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 colour and physiognomy by 

 the incursions of the Mangians and Anamese, but not in language. 6th. With 

 the Moluccas as a basis, a stream of the mixed race flowed eastwai'd, 

 from island to island, over Polynesia — one branch finding its way to New 

 Zealand, via Tongataboo. 7th. Barata, or South India, was, therefore, the 

 Whence of the Maori. 



