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transmission of the distinctive culture-complex can be 

 explained only by supposing that the same people who 

 brought if to India also carried it further east. 



All the other evidence at our disposal is in full 

 harmony with this view. The advancing wave of western 

 culture swept past India into Indonesia, carrying into 

 the isles of the Pacific and on to the American littoral 

 the products of the older civilizations at first almost, 

 but not altogether, untainted by Indian influence; but 

 for centuries afterwards, as this same ferment gradually 

 leavened the vast bulk of India, the stream of western 

 culture continued to percolate eastwards and carried with 

 it in succession the influence of the Brahmanical, Buddhist 

 and, within in a more restricted area, Mahometan cults. 



It is an interesting confirmation of the general 

 accuracy of the scheme that has now been sketched out 

 that the dates at which the influence of Egypt began to be 

 exerted in the east, that to which Rhys Davids assigns the 

 definite influencing of India by Babylonia, that at which 

 India influenced Malaysia, and finally that assigned by 

 students of the Polynesian problem to the inauguration of 

 the great Indonesian migration into the Pacific (60 and 98), 

 all fit into one consecutive series, though each was 

 determined from different kinds of evidence and inde- 

 pendently of the rest. 



It is not my intention to discuss the evidence for the 

 coming of the " heliolithic " culture to Indonesia, for the 

 complex problems of this region have been analysed and 

 interpreted in a masterly fashion by W. J. Perry in a 

 book which is shortly to be published. The form which 

 my present communication has assumed is largely the 

 outcome of the reading of Perry's manuscript and of 

 discussions with him of the new lines of investigation 

 which it suggested ; and I am satisfied to leave this region 



