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portions of the continental basins in later ages. There are no 

 Burmese, Siamese, Anamese or Chinese tribes in Asianesia, al- 

 though there has, in all historical times, been a large influx of 

 Chinese into Indonesia. The Philipines, Borneo, Java, and the 

 Malay Peninsula have always received considerable numbers, but 

 the greater number of those who do not die before they have made 

 a little money return to China, and the remainder are absorbed, or 

 subsist.: lerely as small societies in the native trading towns or, for 

 mining purposes, in the interior- Large mining bodies sometimes 

 maintain a considerable degree of independence, but their turbulence 

 has frequently led to their being massacred. 



The S. E. i itan languages affect and have been affected by 

 those of the foreign races abore enumerated. Some of the Ti be to- 

 Indian and Burm ah- Indian have acquired the phonetic power and 

 some of the idiomatic traits of the Telugu-Tamulian family, and 

 have communicated to its dialects some of their own words. The 

 Chinese, impotent to produce a marked ethnic impression when 

 operating through individuals, — for they have no enthusiasm, reli- 

 gious or otherwise, and seek only gain and selfish gratification, — 

 are all powerful when they can operate in large numbers and con- 

 tinuously. The Korian language, which belongs to the Tartar- 

 Japanese family, is so much pervaded by the northern Chinese that 

 the greater number of its words are now double, a Chinese 

 synonyme being added to the native word. The same influence is 

 exhibited in a different manner in the languages of the educated 

 classes in Japan and Anam. It is now spreading towards Tibet 

 and Burmah, and if the Manchu dominion lasts, its great literary 

 and political influence on that race will lead to the gradual dif- 

 fusion of its words in the Manchu colloquial. 



Srct. 4. General impression of the archaic ethnic movements in 8. S. Asia . 



We can only approximate with any certaintv to a knowledge of 

 the archaic movements of races and tribes in S. E. Asia, and par- 

 ticularly in Ultraindia, by a full comparison of languages. By the 

 time I have finished the publication of my survey of the separate 

 tribes, I hope to be in possession of sufficient materials to complete 

 the comparisons in which I am engaged, and arrive at more de- 

 finite conclusions than I have yet been able to do. As some time 

 may elapse before I publish these, I shall here briefly mention my 

 first impressions. 



China has been immemorially inhabited by tribes of the Chinese 

 race, but the wars and movements that preceded the establishment 

 of the kingdom of Mangli, must have influenced the tribes 

 in Tonkin, Yun-nan and Sseehuen and, through them, Ultrain- 

 dia. Eastern Asia north of the great wa ll has bean the scene 

 of far greater changes. It is difficult to conjecture where th<* 

 original seats of its three chief races, — the Tunguaian, Turkish 



