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the influx of a conquering Turanian or preJroninn rare from iho 

 north developed the higher Dravirian civilisation, with its extra- 

 ordinary maritime advancement. Others may ece 110 difficulty iif 

 the hvjiothesis that the name family, feeble though inventive and 

 ar islie, which produced an Egyptian race, produced al*o maritime 

 mew, on the east coast of Africa, and that thin maritime power 

 ultimately sank, like the Egyptian, before the *U|>ei'ior valour aud 

 vigour of foreign races, and the former the earlier, because it was 

 more exposed to Arabian aggression than the latter was to Arabian 

 or Grecian. Others who cannot recognize any evidence ot consi- 

 derable maritime races in the Indian Ocean earlier than the Himya- 

 ritic and Phoenician, may consider the fact of the existence of tribe* 

 poftttpned of boats, alonp all the eastern coast of Africa, and the 

 prinriry of these races in lime to the lliniyarific and Phoenician, 

 as ermcod by their languages, to be a sufficient explanation of the 

 gradual transportation of African families to the eastward, in the 

 course of the pro-Semitic and pro- Iranian eras. Btfft whether in 

 the archaic times, we confine African influence to its modern 

 location, or brtBg it geographically nearer to the Indian Archipelago, 

 the preservation, to the present day, of African elements in the hut -r, 

 is a fact that must enter largely into all our attempts to restore its 

 ancient history. The dements peculiarly African are combined wiih 

 others which are common to Africa and more eastern lands, as well 

 as intermediate ones, but it will also be borne in mind that element* 

 common to India andSome or all of the Trnnsindian countries, or a 

 portion of their races, with Borne or all of the Ocennic»may nevcrtheh si 

 be African. If any positive African elements are found in A*ianesia p 

 a proimbility immediately arises that they will also be found, or 

 • existed", though now obliterate*! by later ethnic revoluaons, in 

 01 h i" lamia washed by the Iinlian Ocean, and at least as open to 

 African influences as the Archipelago, h >"'^t he remembered 

 that our knowledge of the principal tribes of 8. E*tOT» Africa is, 

 as yet, chieflv from native information, and that we are ignorant of 

 the* more minute traits of tlw habits, opinions, and s^^mhio:. of 

 the best known tribes. I have uo doubt however that we already 

 know much of these by anticipation, in our closer, though stdl very 

 imperfect, knowledge of the Oceanic tribes/ That I may avoid 

 ail risk of misconstruction in what follows, I must add, in auticipa- 

 tion of mv conclusions, tliat ^ritcan elements are strouji and 

 abundant in India and the countries between it and Churn, i pep 

 have been much alfected by Brabmanic and Budhistie influence, 

 rh h.tier itself perhaps Africo-lndian of a later time ; but in many 

 of the less altered ami ruder Indian tribes everywhere, and amongf? ft 

 the civilised tribes of S. India and 6. Asia, there is a great 



• Thi* wideexMninn of almofft evnry e'hnlr timjlgttM a Ugh roliw to tti« mnrt 

 ■bttie^atsoftribesinaav pit of *• Indian ^^^i^J^T^ 

 au Sam bus acquired. few? feci that lie can enUlUwfa beawaes u*eiul in 

 KSSreaqniry 'aittogst oOurr tribe* La »II part* of tl» tqp*. 



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