T1U3 KTHNoLOOT OF THK IXDIAN II Willi I Hi <jt 2»J 



more important t nqniries they are of paramount importance. Their 

 number, variety and connection, have exercised a prat power over 

 thfl human history of the region* On the one hand, they break up 

 nnrj separate the habitable land into a vast number of distinct 

 humnu seats of varied character and extent, — some only sufficing 

 for the maintenance of a few families, and others combining an 

 insular with a continental character, — while, on the other hand, 

 they iit the whole to be embraced by a lower eta^e of maritime art 

 and i-mlimf ion than that which any other region of equal extent 

 would require to unite it. Thcue peculiarities, combined with 

 those of its potation with reference to the shores of the prcat oceans 

 on either Bide, j^ive \ta ethnology an interest possessed by that of 

 no other region peopled by tribes in the same stages of advance- 

 ment. Amongst the sea basins whose ethnic influence has been in 

 uperui.m during all historic times and is uninterrupted at the 

 present <hiy, we shall particularly advert to the Cuina, Malacca, 

 Java, Mangkasar, Solo, Mmdoro, Molucca, Banda, Papua, Jilolo- 

 I'up'ian, i-A ij?trnii:iii ;in i 1 ': ; ::t- M ieronesinn seas, and the 



arvhiprluiiiitii of Johore, the Transjavan or Tiiuorean chain, 

 tlw Bisarnn group, the Moluccas, Eastern Melanesia and of the 

 different Polynesian and Micronesian groups.* All these basins 



• AoU on the necessity nf having distinct Geographical and Ethmtgraphicai 

 Xmncs, andon the system that irilf be adopted in f>ii series of etsays.—Twa set* 



Ot 



plum The ant -<hoold mertly be a uiw fur a dribl* portion of the Eartbl 



surface to whii-hiul tuets, ethnic, p|iv*i< ;>!. v-\. • 





cthiicigrapliiral name, andaboieall to extendi 





rctrl.ii, inhabited by distinct races, produce 0 

 every «ueh reghm ttbouUI bp purely geograjml 

 application St will lw fully understood thai it e 

 and predicates nothing ot them save this geograp 

 with a distinct name Is Inhabited by one tribe 1 







with iu ulsnlc postfix will inavotdablv k-come fit 

 Arabia, Arabians. It is to be wished ban ever 

 wen* distinct, because in ethnic history w« ra 





the seat sot of one tribe but of s successiCD of tribes, or of several con tempont neon* 

 tribes, and n narslv iiroirraj'bieal tinme unconnected with anv of them wonltl save 











ad whenever there is room 



ited In rt-cntt ttnies might stJJJ 

 or occasion for new name* the 



}» ripnr.r--. und Hi- ri- 

 derive geegrttphi'ii! n 

 name* of Uutiuuunt iri 

 have thus been long: 

 and ethuogrnpberd w 

 nomenclature, sonic c 

 be destroyed id «W 1m 

 old error might 1ft aVO 



la the eastern *ets wa an fortunate In possessing many partly geographical 

 names, such as Sumatra, tha I*hllipiue* T Cch<b«s, the Moluluts, Australia, New 

 Guinea, Sx. Bat the names (or all the larger groups which it has been found 

 necessary to class together for particular purposes, are defective. Oeeanica , A nil rtl ■ 

 Stan, tbit Malay Archipelago, MaJalsie or Malaysia. MHane^la v. KeJfpnotirtn, 

 Polynesia, MiTnncsia, are all liable to objections. I fear it 1* impossible to obtain 

 purely geographies! natiw* without retaining many of sucb compound* and increas- 

 ing thflr number, bowevet W$ may dislike ih*uv The (itnnnna an/J Dn'di hav* 

 a great advantage in the license which thr hoMt 01" their language allows in the 

 lannaUon of native couipouids. Like the French we are driven to classical 

 compounds, which cannot he applied to places without offending lingltsh tast<*. 

 The ftmdamenlal ethnic error of confounding all the races of the Vrchlpelago, save- 



