Peoples of Malaysin. 27 



of the Malay Archipclago. It is not diffi- 

 cult to forccast half-way bcLwccn Tndia and 

 Cliiua. in ihese bcautiiu] Suuihern m/;is. 

 under the protcction of the British aiul 

 Dtitcli ilags, thc growing up ot an island 

 cmpire which iu duc tiine will form a third 

 dmsion not unworthy of comparison with 

 its neighbors on the northeast and uorth- 

 west. 



Of the earlier races of Malaysia, the 

 inost marked arc the Malays and the Pa- 

 puans. Thc aboriginal is probably the 

 Papuau. He is an occan negritu, but lack- 

 ing in martial ardor, and rcfusing to lend 

 himseU to the inrluenccs of civilizing litc, 

 hc has been driven from the sca coast aud 

 the low lands to the less productive and 

 more dimcult regions in the mountains. 



The Malay is the present man of the 

 soil. These are dmded into the sea-going 

 Malays, the agricultural Malays, and the 

 mountain Malays. An opium-cating Eiig- 

 lishman sketchcd the Malay of his opium- 

 racked dreams years ago. but in such 

 charming Enghsh that the English reading 

 world has ever sincc believcd De Quincey*s 

 opium inspired sketch to be a reaJ char- 



