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the remote Archipelagos of the Pacific, and some members of 

 the family may have been left behind, and these mingling 

 with subsequent arrivals from Papuasia and Malaysia may 

 have thus contributed to the present heterogeneous ethnical 

 relations observed by me. 



That some connection with the Indo-Malayan region has 

 taken place, seems to be indicated by the presence of the 

 Tangalunga one of the Viverridse, so commonly carried about 

 by these people, and' of the herds of buffaloes on the mainland, 



ORNAMENTED EELT-BUCKLE. 



animals quite foreign to the Austro-Malayan region, which must 

 have been brought by the Malays, though it is incredible that 

 in their small praus they would carry so great a quadruped 

 as a buffalo. The Timor -laut tribes have, moreover, been long 

 notorious for their piratical habits, attacking all boats passing 

 near their shores, making slaves of the men, and concubines of 

 the women. In the boats that called at Eitabel on their way 

 home from various parts of the group I have seen being taken 

 back with them women, whom the chain binding them to 

 the mast proclaimed to be slaves captured or bought. The 



