42 THE EARLY MALAYS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 



But it does not seem to have occurred to this author that 

 the "immigrants . . . from the central plateau of Siberia" 

 might also have been Malays, at least in part, nor that 

 "physical and mental characteristics" which are so apparent 

 to the observer of Malays and southern Japanese could hardly 

 have been acquired from mere wanderings among the former. 



But the northward movement of the Malays appears 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 one distinctly Monogolian, and the other lacking many 

 of the Monogolian features and tending rather to the Malay 

 type." 32 



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 shipwrecked. 

 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 Dravid- 

 ian peoples of southern India reveals such a remarkable similar- 

 ity, phonetic, stymologic and synthetic, that one is forced to 

 recognize in it something more than mere coincidence." 



Thus the diffusion of Malays appears to have skirted 

 practically the entire inhabited coasts of Asia and to have 

 left a trail stretching from South Africa to Korea. 



Of the cultural influences affecting this widely scattered 

 race the Indian, as has been mentioned, was the first and 

 most powerful. But in spreading northward the Malays 

 naturally encountered the civilization which was then dom- 

 inant in eastern Asia — the Chinese. 



Chinese Influence. 



Professor Craig shows how, as early as the third century 

 of our era, Chinese writers mention what we know as the 

 Philippines, grouping them with Formosa, and his chrono- 

 logical leaflet, 33 issued separately from the other pamphlets, 

 indicates that there has hardly been a century since in which 

 reference to the Philippines fails to appear in some Chinese 

 work. 



32 Hulbert, The Passing of Korea, Chapter II. 



33 Pre-Spanish Philippine Chronology. 



