TH K ETHNOLOGY or THE INDIAN AHCHIPELAOfc 



laeo as a whole. In the course of thousand* of years many of the 

 rthnic seotB of the Archipelago must have been subjected to 

 numerous foreign influences, some special, other* embracing many 

 shores and tribes, some feeble and others deeply penetrating. As 

 the common or wide spread influences vary as to duration and 

 extent in different seats, this, combined with the succession of 

 special ones, must ultimately give a great peculiarity to the voba- 

 bulary of each people. 



Lastly we must view the region and its nations as a whole, and 

 gather together the existing evidence tending to throw light on its 

 ethnic history, on the origin and civilisation of the different races 

 that have flourished in it from primeval limes or come into it from 

 foreign lands, and on the influence that has been exerted on it from 

 time to time by new ethnic developments find civilisations, whether 

 indigenous or imported. Here also we shall be able to bring into 

 one view th" leading types of the insular developments, and show 

 why some tribes have remained in a stagnant savage condition for 

 thousands of years, while others near them have been changed and 

 civilised by a succession of influences, foreign and native. 



Our review of the facts already available for the ethnology of 

 the region will be guided by that conception of the requirements 

 of the subject which we have thus indicated in a perjeral manner. 

 To recapitulate, it wdl consist of the following heads; A. A gene- 

 ral account of the ethnic characteristics arranged thus : I, The 

 Individual, — \ 1 . physical character ; \ 2. mental character ; § 8. 

 language; § 4. religion; \ 5. arts; $ 6. food; § 7. dress; \ 8. 

 houses. IL The Family, III. The Village, Clan, or Society, both 

 socially and politically, — including government, social grades, distinct 

 professions, amusements Acc„ TV. The Tribe or Nation with its 

 government, institutions, laws, war Ace B. The Ethnic Geogra- 

 phy of tin- region. C. The Ethnology of each people, including, 

 in addition to the subjects contained m A and B, a section on the 

 characteristic* and influence of its location and on its numbers, 

 and a section on its History, embracing an enquiry into the original 

 soul of its primitive and secondary stocks, their migrations, inter- 

 mixtures, engrail men ts of foreign people and ideas, affinities with 

 other nations in form, customs, language and other characteristics* 

 D. The Ethnology of the region as a whole. 



Having placedour readers in possession of this summary of the 

 fadB already known and drawn from it such conclusions and 

 suggestions as it appears to afford, they wilt be in a position to 

 accompany us in a fresh and more full observation of particular 



* A* there are bunted* of minor riven and other localities in the Archipelago 

 each of which has its own history and present* some variation i« or peculiar c/iarac- 

 it rlntic*, I propose hereafter to eompriat! the whole in a short Ethnographical Dic- 

 tionary, and to give In it not onlr the names of tbow place* of whow hWory Mme- 

 thtng baa been ascertained, hut also all known name» of place* and prion*, with Lit 

 explanation, when poadbfe, of their origin or mrtuiins. 'l>be comparison of geoera- 

 ebW and personal nimn i* in it*fh en ho portent chapter of ethnology, a* It ohm 



