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64 thi RTH*oLnar cf tkx wdias auc-hipr-laoo. 



of native tribes, and successive reoperations of the transformed 

 communities, by a continued influx of foreign men.* 



The germs only of communities have been implanted from abroad ; 

 the growth of evnry community hns been indigenous. A^in, 

 foreign blood and Ideas have been diffused far less by tin* scattering 

 of such foreign germs over tha Archipelago, than through the 

 medium of the earlier colonies, probably confined to the west 

 These, as they advanced in numbers and power, would gradually 

 pive voluntary and compulsory sealers to more Aslant rivers and 

 islands, many of whi h would found new communities, which would 

 continue both to send out in their turn, new settlors, «ud to receive 

 secessions from the western tribes, A multitude of dialects and 

 languages must thus have arisen. The languages imported l»y the 

 Tibeto-Anamese settlers differed, as did those of the natives, and 

 the combinations formed, in different places, from the contact of the 

 two families,* varied in the proportions of each which entered into 

 them- Bat _ mctures of Uie native tongues had strong affini- 

 ties amongst themselves, and predominated in all these new combi- 

 nations. If it he asked when the Africa-Indian migration* 

 commenced and ceased, and when the Tibeto-Anam began," I can 

 give no answer. I can trace positively that both existed, and in 

 comparatively recent times, because ike Continental relations be- 

 longing to both claswes art? too strong and fresh to be referable to 

 an indefinite primordial antiquity. I can also see that the I tide- 

 African preceded the later E, Asian which developed the Malay u- 

 Polynestan tribes. But of the utder history of the Archipelago I 

 know nothing. If tl he asked why the immediate continental 

 progenitors of the existing Malayu~Polyne*ians, so much nearer 

 ?n nostrum, and so imich more awient by linguistic organism, tiian 

 the Indo-Alrican tribes, did not occupy Indonesia first, I answer 

 that the reason must undoubtedly he that they had not extended to 

 the sea board whea. the I ado- African rati rations commenced, 

 although more ancient people, now obliterated, may have existed 



at one period » irr- at Influx of Hindus Into Jata, connected with religious or i»oUtlcat 

 rewlmiotM on the continent. l 



• 1 here are tome trxroosiUertble exceptions. 



* I have Jbr want of a butter word, spoken of the Trbete-Anam/aml/tf, trot it 

 rat te iwneiijheted that, although Ute Anamw are cloeelv allied phvatraJly to 

 the Himalayan and Aiaae* u*>ufii*lntent. their tankage h mm M&nni to 

 ■i ran tire fr.>ui the languagm ot the latter, which aim tliifer ant in^st (hinnielvpg in 

 aaattfderabie extent liie Mon, Myaina, Kwrcn, Lau and other Int-nned.a a 

 l i aa ili n I tbo dii&r mnch. Th« whole however consume* wifh the Tibe'im %n 

 alliance, the nature of which will he defined hereafter. It umnt aUo he recottoeW 

 thai U)« prcent illusion and iiburihntion of ttw Titwi-.- v-mi i; ti'n--. la Mr.,habtv 

 very dUbnar from thai which prevadrd when their influence W reached 

 Asjaneaia. Matty of th* prewnt trlhe* mnv not then have rxfated although their 

 prototype* did. Moreoter •ubaequent bUceeaMve chiinjf«( + n the e-mttneiiial trih« 

 nwy each have affected the kind and amount of the influence exerted on Wi--- 



^ he dtatanm In time, and in many ethnic trait* of nil kink. oatween.the Ar»t llbsio. 

 Jnduw tauugrwit*, who are well represented hy the I'ormseuubi. and th« liter 

 Mayama immigrants who aru b**i wpraMofeJ or the llawa Malay* Sec uf 

 fcuioatra, u very great. ' ; . - 



