Kl'HNOLOOV OF THR I V TJO-P AC! FlC ISLANDS. /(hi 



ibrmntion of Tinlia were akin to llio Au?:traliiin. Wo must 

 cojicludc that before the rise of the historical Scythic nations a 

 similar rormation waa pretloininant over a large piovince in 

 Asia; lliat it cxtcncIeJ to the shores of the Indiitii Ocean, and 

 while located in S.W, Asia wastiiere modified by cotiteinporaneons 

 formations of an archaic Caucaso-lraniun and Caucaso-African 

 dmractcr. The Scylhico-SemiJic ehamcter of tlie Indo-Anstralian 

 formation h consistent with tliat of the race iti^elf, which is at 

 once Afri co-Semitic and Mongoloid but the former more lhau tlu; 

 latter. The physical ty|)e became in large degree sonlheni 

 although the lan^jfuage retuinod a north mi form. How such a 

 change can be produced is explained by many examples. In 

 much later )inies the Turks, a jiitj-e Scythic race when they enter- 

 ed ibe S. W. province of Asia, have acquired an Irano-Semiiic 

 physical type white retaining a Scythic language. That siicces- 

 eive families of the Draviro-Australian race were also dominant 

 before the rise of civilised Cancaiiian, Semiiic and Indo-European 

 tribes in S, W. Asia, is pro?ed by the very fact of their having 

 been able to migrate over the extensive and continuous Draviro- 

 Australian region and from a more noitliern land without being 

 cut off or absorbed on the way by more powerful tribes. When 

 such a race sent forth the great swarms of men by which Imlht and 

 Asonesitt were fii-st peopled, the progenilors of the existing S. W. 

 Asian nations raeist have been inferior tu them in power* The 

 Turanian movements to the southwufrd, which commenced so early 

 as to modify tlie languages of the oldest kr.oun tribes of A frieii, 

 India and Asoncsia, mu^i have continued as the geneml eivilifa- 

 lion of Asia increased. The Draurian languages when compai-ed 

 with tlie Australian afford strong evidence of thU in the*nunu?rou8 

 terms of Asiatic civilisation ivhich they possess iu common with 

 Scythic tongues and which are absent in the Austmlian vocabula- 

 nes. The subject is elucidated in another place, but it should be 

 remarked here that the Dravirian afEuiiies with the Asunesian lan- 

 guages are not confined to the Australiitn, although the most archaic 

 and fundamental arc chiefly found iu the latter. It should also 

 be observed that the Australian and other Asoncs^iajj affinities of 

 the ancient Indian languages extend to all those that still rcmuiii, 

 and are not confined (o ihe South Indian. On the contrary, tliey ' 



