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  Transactions. 
  — 
  Miscellaneovs, 
  

  

  The 
  term 
  ''fossil 
  words" 
  signifies 
  words 
  embedded 
  in 
  a 
  language, 
  or 
  

   which 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  eradicated 
  by 
  foreign 
  influences 
  — 
  such 
  as 
  the 
  Saxon 
  

   words 
  in 
  the 
  modern 
  English 
  language. 
  The 
  roots 
  of 
  the 
  language 
  will 
  be 
  

   found 
  to 
  consist 
  of 
  these 
  ; 
  hence 
  they 
  remain 
  as 
  witnesses 
  of 
  derivative, 
  

   national 
  or 
  tribal 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  parent 
  region, 
  however 
  remote 
  in 
  

   time 
  or 
  distant 
  in 
  space. 
  Fossil 
  words, 
  then, 
  furnish 
  as 
  certain 
  a 
  clue 
  to 
  

   connection 
  of 
  races 
  as 
  either 
  idiomatic 
  or 
  phoiietic 
  similarity,* 
  though 
  this 
  

   opinion 
  is 
  disputed. 
  Eoot 
  or 
  fossil 
  words, 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  shown 
  in 
  previous 
  

   papers, 
  are 
  only 
  to 
  be 
  eradicated 
  with 
  the 
  extinction 
  of 
  the 
  race, 
  and 
  to 
  

   this 
  branch 
  we 
  at 
  present 
  address 
  ourselves. 
  

  

  The 
  previous 
  papers 
  on 
  this 
  subject, 
  whose 
  first 
  object 
  was 
  to 
  investigate 
  

   the 
  whence 
  of 
  the 
  Maori, 
  i.e., 
  the 
  tribe 
  that 
  inhabits 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  confined 
  

   their 
  scope 
  to 
  the 
  Malayan, 
  Malagasi, 
  and 
  Polynesian 
  dialects. 
  In 
  the 
  

   present 
  paper 
  I 
  have 
  prosecuted 
  my 
  enquiries 
  far 
  beyond 
  into 
  the 
  regions 
  

   of 
  Asia, 
  Africa, 
  and 
  Australia, 
  in 
  which 
  labour 
  I 
  was 
  assisted 
  by 
  the 
  works 
  

   noted 
  below. 
  t 
  

  

  The 
  basis 
  of 
  my 
  investigations 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  Malayan 
  Language, 
  with 
  

   which 
  my 
  long 
  sojourn 
  in 
  the 
  Far 
  East 
  made 
  me 
  familiar, 
  but 
  the 
  present 
  

   work 
  has 
  led 
  me 
  into 
  a 
  scrutiny 
  of 
  over 
  four 
  hundred 
  languages 
  and 
  dialects. 
  

  

  The 
  conclusion 
  that 
  I 
  was 
  brought 
  to 
  previously, 
  viz., 
  that, 
  counter 
  to 
  

   popular 
  opinion, 
  the 
  Maori 
  and 
  hence 
  Polynesian 
  race, 
  was 
  not 
  originally 
  

   from 
  the 
  Malay 
  (though 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  through 
  or 
  with 
  them), 
  but 
  fi-om 
  a 
  race 
  

   or 
  races 
  which 
  in 
  pre-historic 
  times 
  inhabited 
  Hindustan, 
  seemed 
  to 
  claim 
  

   further 
  demonstration 
  than 
  my 
  materials 
  could 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  afford. 
  In 
  my 
  

   recent 
  visit 
  to 
  England, 
  therefore, 
  I 
  collected 
  all 
  the 
  works 
  bearing 
  on 
  the 
  

   subject 
  that 
  I 
  could 
  obtain. 
  

  

  * 
  For 
  instance, 
  Malay 
  has 
  a 
  compounding 
  construction, 
  Malagasi 
  an 
  inflecting, 
  

   though 
  both 
  are 
  admitted 
  to 
  be 
  originally 
  one. 
  

  

  t 
  Non-Aryan 
  Languages 
  of 
  India 
  and 
  High 
  Asia, 
  by 
  W. 
  W. 
  Hunter 
  ; 
  Languages 
  of 
  

   India, 
  by 
  Gr. 
  Campbell 
  ; 
  Polygiotta 
  Africana, 
  by 
  S. 
  W. 
  Koelle 
  ; 
  Australian 
  Languages, 
  by 
  

   William 
  Eidley; 
  Mosambique 
  Languages, 
  by 
  W. 
  H. 
  J. 
  Bleek; 
  Malagasi, 
  by 
  Julius 
  Kessler; 
  

   Kafir 
  Language, 
  by 
  John 
  Aylift'; 
  Swahili 
  Handbook, 
  Shambala 
  Language, 
  Yao 
  Language, 
  

   all 
  by 
  Edward 
  Steere 
  ; 
  Malagasi 
  Grammar, 
  by 
  David 
  Griffiths 
  ; 
  Enguduk 
  Iloigob 
  Vocabu- 
  

   lary, 
  by 
  J. 
  Erhardt 
  ; 
  Dictionary 
  of 
  Tslii, 
  Akra, 
  &c., 
  by 
  Christaller, 
  Locher 
  aiidZimmer- 
  

   manu 
  ; 
  Vocabulary, 
  Haussa 
  Language, 
  by 
  J. 
  F. 
  Schon 
  ; 
  Languages 
  of 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  

   (anonymous) 
  ; 
  BuUom 
  Grammar, 
  by 
  G. 
  Pu 
  Nylander 
  ; 
  Western 
  and 
  Central 
  African 
  

   Vocabulary 
  (anonymous) 
  ; 
  Dialects 
  in 
  Africa, 
  by 
  John 
  Clark 
  ; 
  Bornu 
  and 
  Kanuri 
  

   Languages, 
  by 
  Edwin 
  Norris 
  ; 
  Dialects 
  of 
  Nicobar 
  and 
  Andaman 
  Islands, 
  by 
  F. 
  A. 
  de 
  

   Koepstorff; 
  Fijian 
  Dictionarj^ 
  by 
  D. 
  Hazlewood 
  ; 
  Samoan 
  Grammar 
  and 
  Dictionary, 
  by 
  

   George 
  Pratt 
  ; 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  Language, 
  by 
  William 
  Williams 
  ; 
  Hawaiian 
  Dictionary, 
  by 
  

   Lorrin 
  Andrews 
  ; 
  Japanese 
  Dictionary, 
  by 
  J. 
  C. 
  Hepburn 
  ; 
  Comparative 
  Vocabiilary, 
  

   Malay 
  Arcliipelago, 
  by 
  Wallace, 
  &c., 
  &c. 
  

  

  