B6 TUB ETHNOLOGY OF TUB INDIAN ARCMIFEI^flO. 



more abundant than they are to the westward, • although soma 

 tribes are found in the "western islands equally Polynesian u-iih 

 most of the eastern island?. But the p eat repository of the 

 Polynesian habits i» the Moluko-Timo-ian, or 8. E., extremiry of 

 the 'Archipelago, from which the nrmeipd Polynesian i>opnl&tion 

 hn« undoubtedly been derived.f These trails arc so mnnrtou* that 

 it i» necessary to. view the eastern part of the *rflhipelagn and Po- 

 lynesia a* two irreat groups of ethnically allied mVtiitue tribes, such 

 a* those of lite Grecian Arehipfclngo °" c « were * One I may mention 

 here, as connected with that maritime art end enfrrjirise which 

 spread the race far and wide. Each village was a maritime 

 community and had a large village boat which all aided in building. 

 When the monsoon came round the Indonesians departed for trade 

 or piracy or rather both, for, like the Phoenicians and Greeks of 

 the same era, they plundered the weak and bought from the 

 strong. Wb-n they returned, the boat was taken in pieces, and 

 in some place? each family had the custody of the piece which it 

 had fabricated. la the Archipelago this custom has survived the 

 succession of foreign inflaences to which it has been subjected 

 since the Polynesians were severed from it. In Luzon, w here the 

 practice is still maintained in some parts, the same name, barangau 

 K given to the large boats and to a village or district. Each 

 tiMnge had its socialand political organism which extended to the 

 ooar, and to every new settlement that, was voluntarily formed, or 

 resulted from beini wind driven into a new region. It had its royal, 

 noble, f'r/e-lab.wers and helot chise, the latter composed of captives 

 and slaves and in many places doubtless of the ludo- Urican 

 aborigines. Tile helots and freemen laboured in the plantations 

 end at the oar. The nobles led the same life of comparative luxury 

 which they still do in Piratania and Polynesia. The Lanuna 

 are genuine representatives of the ancient Polynesian maritime 

 communities, although considerably modified by later influences. 

 80 were the Jailolans and their great colonies in Ternati, Tidori, 

 Sawai, Amboina and ihe-Titnorenn chain in, the East, and the 

 Celebi'sian states in the West. In the further west the Javanese 

 were doubtless anciently in every respect the same, and tiny 



?robably formed the earliest of the great maritime colonies of the 

 tbeto*Anatnese race, after those on the north const of Sumatra. 

 China and Japan have communicated in later times many trails of 

 their civilisation to the Phili pines, Mindanao, Sulu and northern 

 t Them is a *tronj N. E. Asian physir&l element in Home Polynesian tribes to 

 which I shall ndrert hereaiW. m 



• If we regarded ctutomi alone we ahmild have difficulty in referring rhs Petyne- 

 aiansto any partkular part oi eastern Indonesia, and aonu: coodthnrtfonj might even 

 dkpoMui to prefer the Phi Ipima* to the inortjaoutherngronp*. Bat Imperfect as on r 

 knowledge of the southern Mngnagr* are, I have no hesitation insayfog t,,Rl ,h '? 

 are far more Polym-alan thanrhidplne. Any person who compares a man of the 

 TJmorian or Cers.nn*«e groups with ihe remotest Polynesian one, the Hawaiun 

 or Sandwich I., would hn mediately rmiclmlc Irom the names, and especially from 

 tliu« of so many rivers and places having the prefix Wai (river or water), in all 

 the group* , that a radical conneetioii enisled ivtwefn their inhabitant*. 



