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Polynesian again oppear to have been severed from them sta 



COmptlrmlivt lv early period of the Tib< te-Anamese iniirrniionn, hut 

 after they htul preilnroinatetl in tbifl part of the ArchinelHgo. They 

 present a peculiar combination of many well pr c a orv eq Tilioto-Anum 

 .word*, with much holh of an Africo-Tndian, a Tibeto-Indian and 

 a Tninmwlian ideology. The deductions from a eompim<=on of 

 p iv-ieal and intellectual character, manners, customs and arts, 

 confiim those derived from the evidence of language. 



It will he remarked that I do not rccojjnbe any period, n» that 

 of the universal prevalence of a single language. I can find no 

 tffdence that ihe whole Archipelago, Of any considerable portion 

 of ir T wits ever colonised, or invaded and conquered, by a preat 

 bedv of forritmers at any one time. It has always received 

 involuntary emigrants, ami trading visitors ami settlers, from every 

 maritime people of the Indo-Pucifie basin that has had sufficient 

 knowledge, skill and boldness to reach it ; but the influx of 

 permanent colonists of any particular race, appears to have been al- 

 wavs slow, and the numerical predominance of every new race must 

 have been the work of many centuries at least. The foreigners who 

 came at any one time, and even the whole number of pure blood 

 i:i the Archipelago, must always have been almost infinitesimal \y 

 email compared with the native population. This must he bom 

 in mind in comparing the growth of fbr*'i^n races in the eastern 

 seas with the movements of continental races into new districts, — 

 as the TarLarian race to the west of Asia, the Tamil! ian into India, 

 the Iranian into India and Europe,* or of proper colonies in which 

 communities of foreigners are at once transplanted, as the English 

 in Australia. Trade, not colonisation, has been die great foreign 

 agent of ethnic change in the Archipelflgo.t Hence after the first 

 population, no pure foreign nations arose, but only metamorphose* 



• In alt these case* the mlgrathij; iribcs and communities carry their own lan- 

 gusg'-wlfji rtiem, wn>l tt h only somewhat nvHltfled by the lnu^ungm nf the coriuuured 

 or alwr.rbt.'d nice*. Tliry \\ao gradually induce is adoption r>f roeir language l«y ih« 

 ajwrigtnea in thu open dtiitric'i. ft em's we some" kmc* find the aboriginal race pre- 

 serving it* physical' idt ntity while it ha* adopted In great measure the language of 

 the damlua'tf race, or a mtidiflcation edit. Sonic of the aboriginal Tibeto-Anam 

 tribca of extern and noddlo Imlin have their primitive phvtdral character more or 

 leas stronely marked, while their languages have a Tumuli at: and quasi Tamoliae 

 cliuwicr. *t)ihrrs again, such aa thi; A-wnw, hawe, at u Inler period, llitfruisiieall* 

 assimilated to ihe tribes ot the •necwding great movement irom the N. W. Tb« 

 TamulJan tribes of western India hare undergone tfaa name llngnivitr chnnge. Tb# 

 Innguage i if ! he pre-Tamulian trlbea of southern, and eastern India, who also proba- 

 bly preceded tfie Tibet o-Anian tribes ow ail ludla end carry n* back to an <*xtf>Tnw- 

 ly remote period, have of coitrw long Iwen lost In the *nrce*dve influxes of note 

 tribes ami language*. Bn' pliyMful ami lioguUtic vertical t>t\\l remain, MifRriently 

 strong, wln'n im >itii»^ tf-rl with the. ffncrul rthnnlogh'al liL*ti>ry of ili<« in do- African 

 ha*ln, to prove tb>ir existence and their pKdaiblc character. Of inch linguistic m* 

 Ttdutiouit cjiiin d by great iufimtn id" foreign tribes, the Archipelago cannot he 

 expected tu aiford examples. 



t Internally iherv has heen much and constant colon rsctl on and conquest, Th« 

 thin population, and the multitude of creeks and rircia, has* constantly Invited tha 

 formation of new communities. A man who disdiWtii his present portion, or Is 

 forced to milt h\ never hesitates from the fanr that he will nut speedily find s new 

 bonis to pkaas him. It »hould alio be observed that there appears to hars been 



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