THE EARLY MALAYS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS j 1 



anthropologist and the historian and one which throws a flood 

 people UP ° n G ^ ^ develo P men * of the Filipino 



Northward Migration. 

 The less familiar, but (in its results) more important, 

 migration of the Malays northward is developed by Professor 

 Craig m his two other pamphlets, especially the first 29 The 

 strong Malay influence in Formosa is noted and, what is more 

 interesting, the extension of the Malayan wave to Japan 

 lb quote irom one of his authorities : 30 



"The Japanese people are a mixture of several distinct 

 stocks. Negrito, Mongolian, Palasiatic and Caucasian features 

 more or less blended, sometimes nearly isolated, are met with 

 everywhere. The Negrito is the least prevalent. Prof. Baelz 

 who has drawn attention to this type along with the Malayan 

 physiognomy, found it comparatively more pronounced in Kyu- 

 shu (island of which Nagasaki is the port), where a Malayan 

 immigration 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 

 "Malayan immigration" reached there. An author 31 not re- 

 ferred to in the pamphlet says : 



"The first immigrants landed in Izumo (southwest coast of 

 Hondo) having come by way of Korea from the central plateau of 

 Siberia. The second, who arrived long after the first, came (to 

 Hiuga on the east coast of Kiyushu) from a more southern part 

 of the continent by way of Formosa, whence with the help of the 

 Kuro Siwo (Japan current) they could easily reach Japan. Some 

 authorities have endeavoured to show that these immigrants were 

 of Malay origin, and have found marked similarities in both the 

 physical and mental characteristics of the modern Malays and 

 Japanese to support their theories. While, however, they un- 

 doubtedly acquired a strong Malay element in their southern 

 wanderings the fact that, when the two colonies at last met, their 

 languages and customs were so similar that no difficulty was 

 experienced in the amalgamation of the two, shows(?) that the 

 origin of the preponderating elements of the second must be 

 found in the same race as that of the first." 



29 The Pre-Spanish Philippines. 



30 Munro, Prehistoric Japan. The "Caucasian features" mentioned 

 in this excerpt refer to the Ainu who once "occupied the greater part 

 of the main island of Japan and probably overflowed into Shikoku 

 and Kyushu" but later "retreated before this new invasion" from the 

 south (much as did the Negritos before the Malay invasion of the 

 Philippines) "until at the beginning of the nineteenth century they 

 were practically confined to Yezo (where, 'years ago' it was 'estimated 

 that only 17,000 of them remained') and the islands farther north." 

 Starr, (Frederick), The Ainu of Japan, Asia, XIX, 381-387. 



31 Longford, The Story of Old Japan (1910) 5, 6. 



