THE ETHNOLOGY OF Tlik IN DUX ABCIiiPELAQO. 



laws or customs relating to the institution of slavery and particular!? 

 to the stains of tin 1 clave. With fome tribes a man may be of- 

 most any fi action of a slave, aud several families may have shuns 

 in the fraction, 



The di vision of classes, royal (sometimes til vine ) noble, free 

 and helot, ami its influence op \he wJiole fabric of society, which 

 preserves a singular uniformity from Sumatra" to Polynesia, the 

 same class names beinj; widely spread, - must have originated in 

 one race, and is evidenlly Indian and not Trunsiudian, although U 

 may have been so at one period and been subsequently obliterated 

 by the Mayama-Ausm tribes. The w hole constitution of society is 

 decidedly Aiymn, and carries us buck to the tirst ages of normal 

 Aryan influence in the basin of the Ganges. The Tibet o-Indiaus 

 brought the same insulations to Asiancsta which they had acquired 

 from the earliest Aryan culture in the adjacent w< stern region, and 

 gradually adopted the original islanders into them as the Aryans did 

 uie aborigines in the valley of the Ganges. The Aryan social orga- 

 nism presented the same two-fold aspect under the action of circum* 

 stances which itdidhi India and Europe. In communities which were 

 warlike and prcdntious from necessity or choice, it i,»umed H feudal 

 or quasi military form. Each chief was absolute in hi* own domain. 

 He was in fact akin*x r and the supreme ruler an empe-or, who#e 

 uosition depended muelt upon Ins personal character, and who had 

 little practical power save when supported by die stronger chiefs. 

 In the inland agricultural communities it assumed a form identical, 

 in diiuust every respect, with Lbe Saxon and Hindu village systems. 

 The Polynesian partook more ot the feudal, because they originated 

 in predacious maritime communities, and the smallneps of the it* 

 lands prevented the formation of purely agricultural communities. 

 The western Indonesian had much more of the Saxon character, 

 because the large inlands with their inland river and lake basins 



• Compare Aril. Alrya, Arlai (Arta, Arlana, Arianl) S. W. Aula; Arva, India; 



W*J Arang. Panggeran aria, Java ; aroich. Bannt* ; nj*iu>g« \utt 

 aiiki t 8liki. ft-bk, Oram, Amhoina] aril, eree, than, oriuL aru t ranirauja.'rsntU- 

 ra, I olynwi; Allah, Arabic (/As Lord tjj Ba, Hum, fcgypt, Madagascar [kadans, 

 Bansvtda, Ha ferula] hurmah, >iam ; Bam, Bana/Wia; Ram, Lmu, Data, 

 Badiu, Rajtnic Malty, all probably primarily from ihe nomc for tbe Sim, Identical 

 in tlio Fgyprian, Irish, Poiynt-fian 4c, La, Ba, aim prraaned ro Havl, India, 

 Barak (tiolor) the Malay art, harl (dny) (Iwk 1*15} Latin *>). ^a*r,n sun, Niiga 

 •an, Mayama tehang, cbung (the god of the Ahoros,) appearing with tJie n&*A 

 termhiiufoo Id Banp, Lang, Lunga, Clungu, Langl, lantrit, Langits ttc aa 

 name* for the tun, th* nky or a god, to teveraf African, Indian, Traaatadfaui and 

 AilaTir#Ian language*. Tbe Ideal tMMti la t lie worship of the »un, thr ddfkmtioa 

 graw wfc, and the application nf the nanw aa a title, equivalent to god, rulw or loid, 

 king ice, Tbe PoJyoealan Ariki, ArU, appears to be Ur«rally child or children of 

 tht tun, as the proginitora of the Piruvian royal line were believed r<> be. >o tLe 

 divine rate of Egyptian king* were ca'.h-d aurtta*." Tbe »un god of (lie Timoriani ia 

 called 1'iintnu, Lord of the Sun f Vai is lord in Jnpnntae). 



I thai] give a ixmiparattve liat of the names of cJi»a*es, clans, offices lie. Many 

 of the cmnridencea are striking, such aa tofk, Halraahara, ffiorui Buru. uan Cccaa, 

 fsoga N. Zealand; dnti MoiukSA, tigud N, Zealand (clan, tillage.) 



