﻿J, 
  T. 
  Thomson. 
  — 
  On 
  Barat 
  or 
  Barata 
  Fussil 
  iVords. 
  166 
  

  

  Farther, 
  that 
  many 
  of 
  these 
  words 
  should 
  also 
  be 
  preserved 
  in 
  Africa 
  is 
  

   not 
  to 
  be 
  wondered 
  at, 
  seeing 
  that 
  the 
  negro 
  race 
  had 
  in 
  archaic 
  times 
  such 
  

   large 
  expansion* 
  over 
  all 
  the 
  regions 
  under 
  review, 
  and 
  between 
  whose 
  

   tribes 
  and 
  nations 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  immemorial 
  intercourse. 
  

  

  The 
  question 
  still 
  remains 
  — 
  from 
  what 
  part 
  of 
  Hindustan 
  did 
  these 
  great 
  

   Island 
  Tribes 
  emanate 
  ? 
  The 
  reply 
  will 
  be 
  best 
  made 
  by 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  

   accompanying 
  map 
  (pL 
  IV). 
  It 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  from 
  this 
  that 
  Hindustan 
  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 
  

   Mongolian 
  ; 
  the 
  one 
  occupying 
  the 
  western 
  and 
  northern 
  regions, 
  the 
  other 
  

   the 
  southern 
  and 
  eastern 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  overrunning 
  Hindustan 
  have 
  they 
  extu'- 
  

   pated 
  the 
  primitive 
  races 
  ? 
  not 
  entirely 
  ; 
  many 
  of 
  these 
  remain, 
  much 
  modi- 
  

   fied, 
  it 
  is 
  true, 
  in 
  colour 
  and 
  physiognomy, 
  but 
  little 
  in 
  language.! 
  The 
  

   roots 
  of 
  a 
  language 
  die 
  only 
  with 
  the 
  tribe's 
  extirpation. 
  Hence, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  

   in 
  the 
  languages 
  of 
  the 
  intruding 
  sections 
  that 
  we 
  have 
  found 
  the 
  Barata 
  

   fossil 
  words 
  ; 
  but, 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part, 
  in 
  the 
  various 
  small 
  tribes, 
  yet 
  pre= 
  

   served 
  in 
  the 
  obscure 
  portions 
  of 
  theu* 
  territory, 
  difficult 
  of 
  access, 
  such 
  as 
  

   under 
  the 
  Himalaya, 
  Jynteah 
  and 
  Nilgherry 
  mountains. 
  In 
  these, 
  the 
  

   undeleted 
  glossarial 
  remains 
  of 
  what 
  had 
  once 
  been 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  a 
  

   numerous 
  people, 
  we 
  have 
  witnesses 
  to 
  facts 
  and 
  conditions 
  of 
  nations 
  long 
  

   since 
  past 
  and 
  preceding 
  historic 
  record. 
  

  

  Small 
  tribes 
  may 
  have 
  found 
  their 
  way 
  towards 
  the 
  Tropics 
  by 
  divers 
  

   routes, 
  and 
  particularly 
  by 
  those 
  through 
  the 
  Malay 
  Peninsula, 
  Tenasserim 
  

   coast 
  and 
  islands, 
  but 
  the 
  section 
  or 
  nation 
  that 
  spread 
  its 
  influence, 
  girdling 
  

   two-thirds 
  of 
  this 
  globe, 
  could 
  not 
  have 
  been 
  one 
  or 
  more 
  of 
  these. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  to 
  South 
  India, 
  therefore, 
  that 
  we 
  must 
  look. 
  For 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  

   of 
  this 
  region 
  have 
  from 
  times 
  immemorial 
  carried 
  on 
  trading 
  expeditions, 
  

   westerly 
  to 
  Africa 
  and 
  easterly 
  to 
  the 
  Moluccas, 
  a 
  circumstance 
  that 
  can 
  

   neither 
  be 
  stated 
  of 
  the 
  natives 
  of 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  Hindustan 
  nor 
  of 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  

   Malayan 
  states. 
  The 
  original 
  seat 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  Barata 
  race 
  can 
  then 
  be 
  

   only 
  fairly 
  sought 
  for 
  or 
  denoted 
  in 
  South 
  India, 
  which 
  commands 
  the 
  

   routes 
  east 
  to 
  Malayo-Polynesia, 
  west 
  to 
  Madagascar, 
  and 
  whose 
  population, 
  

   eminently 
  maritime, 
  were 
  competent 
  to 
  the 
  task 
  of 
  navigation. 
  Thus 
  we 
  

   are 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  conclusion 
  as 
  stated 
  in 
  my 
  previous 
  essays. 
  J 
  

  

  In 
  my 
  researches 
  I 
  have 
  had 
  to 
  scrutmise 
  the 
  Sanscrit 
  terms, 
  several 
  of 
  

   the 
  Asiatic 
  and 
  African-Arabic 
  dialects. 
  Bask, 
  Finnic, 
  Magj^ar, 
  Turkish, 
  

   Circassian, 
  Georgian, 
  Mongolian, 
  Muntshu 
  and 
  Japanese 
  languages, 
  without 
  

   finding 
  analogies. 
  I 
  have 
  also 
  examined 
  twenty 
  languages 
  of 
  Australia, 
  

   and, 
  amongst 
  these, 
  instances 
  of 
  but 
  very 
  exceptional 
  and 
  remote 
  affinities 
  

  

  * 
  See 
  Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  1871, 
  p. 
  32, 
  t 
  See 
  Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  1871, 
  p. 
  36, 
  

  

  I 
  Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  1871, 
  p. 
  48. 
  

  

  