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ETHNOLOGY OF TtlE ISmi-rXClfW iSLAXDi. 



brancb furnished llie raarilime tribes of the Lower Imwadi iintl 

 Arracan, and would tend to sfiow that the Uiiraindian navigators 

 of this era were the first who li id sufBcietit intercourse with the 

 races of Torres Strait, and the adjacent shores of Australia and New 

 Guinea, to communicate to thc^m (hd names of their vessels. 



Another Oceanic term, nearly dia[jluecd like the preceding one, 

 is at«o refernble to an Ultraiiulian source. 





Tibetan 



khitonkh'o 



Naga 



khoa 





khung 



ft 



khomhe 



Limbu 



kiipok 



Nicobar 



marl-kho 



Champhiini^ 



maii-khong 



Lnliiippa 



ra-Uong 



N. Tani-khal 



kowa 



SaYii 



rai-koi-iioi 



Onin 



kinnng 



Kissa 



jong-kon;,^ 



Bima, Tidoii, Bajo 



ja-kong 



Bali; SasDk, Bnol 



koina 



Maori [kui Ouin] 



kuan 



New Ireland 



kacrc 



Vanikoro 



ku 



Utanata 



nel-kou 



AneitL'iim (New Heb.) 



kalu, kui 



Lojalty la. 



kwa 



Nikclc (New Caledonia) 



It will be remarked that the Savn kowa, New Ireland kua-ff, 

 and New Cdledoniaa kwaare faithful to the Tibetan and Nasa koa. 



To compl'jie the history of the Dravirian maritime connection 

 with Asonesia it may be added that the Indonesian term for a 

 square rigged \eKselj kapal, is also Dravirian, but of much later 

 origin. It belongs to the Telugu or Kalinga era of Indonesian 

 civilisation, like the Sanskrit element in the languages of the civi- 

 lised western races. The Draviriaii term appeal's to be a Seythieo- 

 Caucasian root with a native postfix, kapii/. Circassian kap, kaf, 

 kuafa, Turkish kuafah, Ugrian kap (Wolga), chap, (Ostiak) Tnr^ 



