THE EARLY MALAYS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 37 



he has not only collected an extensive vocabulary 9 of common 

 words therein, which are cognate with Sanscrit, but he 

 marshals other evidence in support of his conclusion that 

 Malay speech m general "is an Indian tongue closely allied 

 to, or originally derived from Sanscrit-tbe language of Vedic 

 worship and Vedic days." " And he sumg th ^ resultg Qf 

 ins researches in the following inquiry : 



+ u /T hat conclu 1 sion ca n we then, at present draw, other than 

 that the ancient home of these peoples and the birth place of 

 their forefathers was in the land where the Vedic gods were 

 worshipped and an Indian language was spoken, which land can 

 be no other country than that extensive continent of India— 

 the cradle of the Malay race." 1X 



Moreover, the term "Malay" itself, instead of being 

 derived, as General Forlong seems to think, from the Indian 

 mala (hill), is more probably connected with the Tagalog 

 malayo (far) with its allusion to the long wanderings of the 

 race which General Forlong emphasizes. 



"They have" he says 12 "thronged East Africa above 1,000 

 years, and have even a colony at the Cape of Good Hope. They 

 traded everywhere throughout Madagascar— their Malagasa, 13 — 

 and the Mala-dvipas or Maldives. They colonized 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 epony- 

 mous extensive Molucca group." 



Contact with the Negritos. 



When the Malays entered the archipelago now known as 

 the Philippines 14 they found there an aboriginal race, dark 

 skinned, of short stature and curly hair, resembling, and 

 probably akin to, the Papuans of New Guinea, the aboriginal 

 Semang of the Malay peninsula, 15 the Mincopies of the 

 Andaman Islands 16 and perhaps to the blacks of Australia. 



9 Origin of the Malayan Filipinos, Academy Publications, I, 22-35. 



10 Id. 37. 



11 Id. See also the "comparison of the Korean language with that 

 of Dra vidian peoples of southern India" in Hulbert's Passing of Korea^ 

 Chapter II. 



12 Malays, 2. 



13 The similarity between Tagalog and Malagassy was the subject 

 of a monograph by Eenward Brandsteller, entitled "Tagalen und Mada- 

 gassen" (Luzern, 1902). 



14 This name was not applied until long after Spanish occupation 

 when it was given in honor of the reigning monarch Felipe II. Magel- 

 lan, who discovered the group on San Lazaro's day, named it after 

 that saint. 



15 Barrows, The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines, 

 American Anthropologist, (N. S.) XII, 375, citing Skeat and Blagden's 

 Pagan Paces of the Malay Peninsula. 



16 Keed, Negritos of Zambales (Philippine Ethnological Survey 

 Publications, Vol. II, pt. I) 13 et seq. 



