78 THR ETHNOLOGY OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



languages of Asianesia, but certainly not the sole ones, because the 

 latter have African words which are either not found in Mada- 

 ga$car,or are found on the continent in forms closer to the 

 Aaianesian, The whole western margin of the Indian Oceanic 

 basin, from the Red Sea to Kafirlnnd, gave words and customs 

 to the eastern islands, but the gifts from Mada«jnsear have been 

 amongst the greatest, as might have betn anticipated from its 

 position,* 



Evid fuces of an Africo-Semiticf influence belonging to a more 

 developed or artinrial culture than the ruder African of the Papuan 

 ulands, are preserved in Indiu, the Tibeto-Lau region and the 

 eastern islands. Such are inheritance by Bister's son*,* the marriage 

 of sisters by kings or chiefs,^ a purer or more intellectual Subaiam, 

 — apreat advance on fetichism, and which in the pre-Iraniai* epoch 

 of Indiun civilisation connects itself with Egypt and- East 

 African port-, Aden and the Himyarilic race, and not wiih Inin, 

 although the latter in its turn wns connected with the former. 

 The eun and moon were the chief gods in the S. E, part of the 

 Archipelago, 



Maoy African customs are American ako, such as tatoo- 

 ing, the tribe marks, mode of burying the dead, the tabu on 

 women for long periods after child-birth, disregard of female 

 chastity belore marriage, iuterdictiona to which women are subject 



• The first broad inference nf a direct connection admits of no doubt Eut t3n 

 facti belonging to remoter ami indirect connection*, whfch mn»t be sooarat. H are 

 numeroQii and give much complexity to the »-iiuuirv J Wore the whole trurii of 

 the relation uf the African to the Oceanic faqratasj 0M be asm 

 know the relat ion of the African to the iJeniliie, Turanian and Ir 

 Afnra at an early time, ha* evidently received modi from the 

 given hack word* to India before the rise of Iranianisra tber* <» 

 tUSHS 2? r ?i/ rQm I**** wtaMwmly. I apprehend also that the coimec'ion 

 la-iweea tlie African and MfcKtal Coast began at so re;note a period that the lan- 

 guages spoken , jn Madagascar lave undergone great chunxea rinee both InTemal 

 and trvm later Egyptian and other African, Phoenician Ilfimarlilr A*fc K.mh™ 



tan 'ind Indiun i flu fi t it VT i 1 i L Jintn, i*upnra- 



idtfuftHiir to (In mwnttf *[ ♦* i ra " Hai ' attunes, phonetic, giosjorial and 

 5Z nrimnrdii i A _ Ma languages, b< 'long to the older archaic and to 



j j u' 1 !^ ineee languages arofo from fiuccm&r* dere-lopmenrs 

 ™ spreads. E. to Indlannd B.W. to Africa, 

 inter currents of language, rmr chief glea- 

 ms which a word assume* In Its passage, 

 nUy to another, from a dcveloprntrntlBte 

 nskrit. 



nrriJ.ww^T » l-«»i«,b> were very African in their character, and it ii 



? i ft fi'tt ?S 52 MIU «l"»'kns. thot the primitive popnlation between the 

 2KS*f^i ? % !S »? ldy ® Uk,tl t0 thc " ilidc - ™r s ? rl * n Imc " wmwtt 

 ■m 1 il it i • *ll "laiyantieur Snban than with 'he Arabs of the Hetet, 

 tt« f.i . n , 311,1 th ? l»«!r»jpM«f«l»ebisiirr basin of the Mir on 



ThL aour ii, extend the connection to Africa. The A rabbin histories and i 



, . — -, whikhwh hi Anira. i aa iiraoian ntstonee ana EeneaJosnrs 



derive all the present Arab people from northern famllie*, and preserve rradJtfonj 



Hit 



lias 



bai alto 





■a ami 



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of ancient tril** who occupied Antbiabcf. 

 parts o! Arahia I he hair approaches to a wt 



rx dwpiared them. In some 



r-Eiuua S!tJ M r .? ro f?' ^. Madagascar**.); Himyaritie (Saba); Indian 

 iJiK^JKS^ ' ******* (M^wngtaibau, Arnhoiua, ttc). In Baunbc { M lero- 

 «wi .i. me ? EST*" w,:um,lu m " n tbelr children rise to the chiefdom. 

 TpI ' *T : frn!ef * n ™do. Compu-ethis with the Nslrruitom. 

 t fcgjpt, MitdagMcar, Warn, Molukas. I'olvneaw. Pern. 



