92 TRIEES INHABITING PEXANG AND PROVINCE WELLESLEY. 



the ethnology of a large portion of Asia and Europe. Chinese from 

 Kuantung and Hok-kien furnish a large portion of our population, 

 and Chinese from other provinces are found either among the 

 general population, or at the Eomau Catholic Mission College. 

 Anamese, Kambojans, Burmese and natives of various parts of 

 India, Persia, Arabia, Eastern Africa and Europe represent Conti- 

 nental ethnography, while, in addition to the Malays — Achinese, 

 Battas, Javanese and Bugis represent the Oceanic, In Singapore, 

 Dayaks, natives of the Moluccas and other eastern islanders, are 

 also to be found. There has also been more or less admixture of 

 blood among all these races, with various results. The most dis- 

 tinct classes thus produced are the Portuguese of Malacca, who, 

 from the non-renewal of European blood are now more Malay than 

 Portuguese ; the native Chinese of Penang and Malacca, who from 

 constant intermarriage with fresh immigrants from China, have 

 nearly lost all trace of their Malay ancestry on the female side ; 

 and the so-called Jawi Pakan, a class between the Kling and the 

 Malay which retains its distinctive characters by a continued inter- 

 mixture with both races of its progenitors. 



