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influences continue! to How in contemporaneously, as h \p;>eTm 

 now with fcvcrv* foreign race that frequents die Archipelago. 

 Seamen of the lower classes would sometimes remain, and imager 

 and ruder societies would he separated, in many parts of the Archi- 

 pelago, from the more pownrfnl and numerous ones, which butter 

 preserved and retained somewhat of the higher social organism und 

 customs of the Wetfero parent states, and continued to receive 

 accessions of number* una influence from them, cither directly or 

 through India :tri<t Ullrninilia. Every trading company or vessel 

 niu*i have included members of a lower or servile class. 



'Physical Fact*, While most of the Oceanic spiral haired 

 tribes are diKimguadied, by their general physical cnanieier, from 

 the adjacent races of E. Asia, they have most decided *Metabluncea 

 to the E. African rar*e<. In ever}' considerable group of African 

 tribes several varieties may be ohse r.vd. This remarks which 

 is true of the Continent, applies? n\#a to Madagn i "ir. I.- th* 

 Asianeaian groujt? a large range of variations is also seen. This 

 is exhibited in the Philipine*, as well as in the more eastern 

 proups. In Africa there are exceptions of n peculiar kind to t ho 

 distinguishing character of the hair. In some of the Fa I ah tribes 

 it passes from slightly curled to straight, and becomes soft and 

 silky. If the Australians be ad mi 'ted to have an affinity to the 

 Astunasian family of negroes, the same exception appear* in it al*o.* 

 Most of the other African varieties have al.*o tie;ir representatives 

 in Asianepia. Thns Prichard gives a portrait of a Mozambique 

 ni'gro which is a very correct representation of one variety of 

 the eastern negro found in the island of Kude or Floris, The 

 remarkably indented appearance or sinking in at the junction of 

 which different parts were uliimately appropriated or shared by 

 different races. It is also probable that both the ruder and higher 



■ The pbydeal affinities and tho» in Jansmw and SSMMh between th« 

 AoitrnVrin mid other Indo-Atrlean trtbfs of *~*iaru**Ia are strong and de-rldiKl. 

 They have al*o been considerably influenced by the 1 iMo-Anam rafn*, 

 eJ'ough this ii exhibited by some tribes mora than by others, But placing 

 tht ir jihyw al diaraoterMllcs, and the peculiarly Tartanttn character of Tbt-ir 

 language together, I -would hove little diflieiilty m eonrtu (frig thui th*-y 

 mare nearly »»vjcl«te them**!™ with a very ancient and rude Indian deve- 

 lopment than directly with an African one Bot the termer taunt have bc*n 

 closely rehired to African. limjuhiieally an>J hi otlutr rwiw-u, an 1 prohahly 

 boh* ged primarily to th^ rra whnJi Africa, 8. W. Asa and India formed one ethnfe 

 region, and when the position ol the partiebs waa only beginning to hwc Itemdriiermi- 

 ai e diameter. At ihw era the who.e lingnuiir di:v-]-,'m:nil ,mv W well cbatm-t- 

 e Lssd tu a cmht Indo- African. The Australian shew more occidrd »n idencee of 

 luvimr paswd through, not a To mo linn medium, but an flur-lier, and perhaps more 

 western, one, to wideb the Tamil vma olio akln„ than the other A«ilanedon langu- 

 age*. The. !•*•») podtlun of tbe Australian nice aiford.* a prtwn motion that th*y 

 p ec«i"! the Piriua tribes. They were protiahly derived immediately from India or 

 through rntrLtindia, white it acorns mure probable that, oJ though on ny of thf I'apmin 

 tribe* bod it similar origin, the mo.>i iinjmrtuit and inflornt la I came directly from 

 Africa. Ihe Au«*tralkn ftipiomerauon of au.:jcM*ir» words of relation afirr the 

 icnon word kt. 1» entirely anaiOmoaa to thn African, Mailaptacar, Formotan and 

 Pbiiipine piT-ajjgiomeratlon. Tbs reiaOona of lb? AiiBtraimii ro rhc TamuUan 

 axduairdy are tew, and the latter is far more advanced than the former. 



