« THS ETBKOLOOT OF THE IlfDUN ABcmPElAGO. 



kindred, and that the question of their affinity mmt be left u. 

 hy) nd Malayu-Papuan race ha. been described u fonnd 0 ° the 



the sbehtest ground for this opinion. 



A class of tribes figures in Dutch, Preach, and many Fmrfah 

 work, under the tide of Arefuraa or AhW CLZ 



jS »S d .tonally to thoae of Borneo. *Tl,» sectioned 

 MWayu-Polynaum race was conaidered by L«*o„ tTbe £ 

 £ e"*',!" 4 "^ 2 the Archipelago and to hat 



oPT. ix? 1 "* , ^ e «J to WC3 the people 

 * *» A** mpuntama » N« Guinea and the Austrian. 

 prcstTvod the pnmittve type of thia race. Priebnrd, while 

 ne lh.s people from the ao called Alfura or MaWPolvK 

 mUl, re ot the ^eat, believe. W iO,W that ^v'L aZn" 

 ofm^kinT'' C ° IBt,,ate 01,6 ° f lhe mwt «W«*»Ie varied. 



The only remote language with which the Malavu-PoW 

 a«n tongues hare been connected is (hat ofMadapicar The 

 connection, wh.ch waa remarked by the 5trly Porturueee aid 

 Dutch wntera, is limited to a alight verbal , JmbKbTcraSr 

 turd, who explains rtby supposing that Malayan prous may hW teL 

 dnven by storms aero, the Inuian Ocean to M,l« £ 

 bo dt adopt, a ..milar explanation of me origh, oKnnect^ 

 but declare, that >t ts not coufined to a few words but extends 

 to die enure structure of the language, which preserves £e ftiM 

 Malayan cl.aractcnatios of the Tslaff to a much ZmmmS 

 than any of the language of the l^bipelaV^f. 8 ^.^ 

 for this remarkable fact he considered that iAlakvui, colony 

 have planted iMf i B Madagascar. Priehari TlZ uZi Ttht 

 opmjon, had previously remarked that the Molagasi wat m ore 

 g^yjT S3 * C W «?» «»y oTr In«on™an 

 SSCT'm t I>»J'*'<*I and eodal resemblances of some of the 

 tnbes < Madagascar to those of the adjacent regions of Africa are 

 SS£2 The&t. which ZuZ 



Madagascar w,th Aft™ on the one aide and Oceanic* on OmSZ 

 have been explained b, the hypothesis that soma of the Sa*M 

 of Malayan and others of African origin. A comparison of the 

 Malagas! dialed* with the African language, " 

 to <hw opin.on according to Dr PricharT has been S3 



renort ^.1 &2ft5 "' dre P e9tai ^ Dr Latham j» his n« 

 report to the Bnlwh Association, that the Malagas languaee is not 



»g» % "5S E KRi of Madaga^eT&C 

 the Uovas, the dominant tribe, are a colonylrom W 



Hie physical characteristics common to the Bunnah-Chine* 

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