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nized 500 miles of the West Coast of India, still known as Mala-bar; the 

 great islands of Sumatra and adjoining mainland known as the Malaka 

 Peninsula, extending over some 700 miles; all the large island kingdoms 

 of Java, Celebes and their dependencies and the extensive eponymous 

 Molucca group. 



The less familiar, but in its results more important, migration 

 of the Malays northward is developed by Professor Craig in his 

 two other pamphlets, especially the first.* The strong Malay 

 influence in Formosa is noted, and what' is more interesting, the 

 extension of the Malayan wave to Japan. To quote one of the 

 sources :^ 



The Japanese people are a mixture of several distinct stocks. Negrito, 

 Mongolian, Palasiatic and Caucasian features more or less blended, some- 

 times nearly isolated, are met with everywhere. The Negrito is the least 

 prevalent. Prof. Baelz, who has dravsm attention to this type along with 

 the Malayan physiognomy, found it comparatively more pronounced in 

 Kyushu (island of which Nagasaki is the port), where a Malayan immi- 

 gration is believed to have taken place. 



Apparently this author confuses Negrito with Malay, but 

 any one familiar with certain racial types in southern Japan 

 and their resemblance to Filipinos may well believe that a "Ma- 

 layan immigration" reached there. But it seems not to have 

 stopped even in Japan. To quote further: 



Oppert was the first to note that in Korea are two types of faces, the 

 cne distinctly Mongolian, and the other lacking many of the Mongolian 

 features and tending rather to the Malay type.' 



Following the Malay migration the same author says : 



From the Malay Peninsula we may imagine them spreading in various 

 directions. Some went north along the coast, others into the Philippine 

 Islands, then to Formosa, where Mr. Davidson, the best authority, declares 

 that the Malay type prevails. The powerful Black Current, the Gulf 

 Stream of the Pacific, naturally swept northward those who were ship- 

 wrecked. The Liu-Kiu Islands were occupied, and the last wave of this 

 great dispersion broke on the southern shore of Japan and Korea, leaving 

 there the nucleus of those peoples who resemble each other so that if 

 dressed alike they cannot be distinguished as Japanese or Korean even by 

 an expert. The small amount of work that has been so far done indicates 

 a striking resemblance between these southern Koreans and the natives of 

 Formosa, and the careful comparison of Korean language with that of 

 Dravidian peoples of southern India reveals such a remarkable similarity, 

 phonetic, Etymologic and synthetic, that one is forced to recognize in it 

 something more than mere coincidence. 



* The Pre-Spanish Philippines. 

 ' Munro, Prehistoric Japan. 

 [ • Hulbert, The Passing of Korea, Chapter II. 



