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appear to Iiave been mainly with the aneieat Gangelic Ianguag4?s, 

 and even those Asonesiua vocables that are now found in Souili 

 India onlj, were probably derived from Gurigelic vocabularies 

 which liave since lost these words or have themselves ceased to lya 

 spoken. The Asonesiun vouabularied aUo contaia Bumeroud 

 worda of a similar phonetic Blrucluro to the ancient Indian, but 

 which hav« no repreeentatives in any known Indian language now 

 existing^ although ihey have Scythic, N, A&ian, Iraniauj Cauca- 

 Bian or Suniilico-African afRnities. Allowing tor ihosc that may 

 have been received directly from the Malagasy and Etj&t African 

 formalions and from Japan, ihe great raasB doubtless found their 

 way to the islan<I^ through Ihe basin of the Ganges and UUraindia 

 for their diffusion in the most ancient insular vocabularies, inclu- 

 ding the Australian, must have long preceded the era of a direct 

 navigation between Southern India and Ultraindla or Indonesia. 

 Of those chieily found in the vocabularies of the more civiliee J 

 and maritime tribes of Asonesia or within their range of locomo- 

 tion, a large nnn.her were probably derived from India in the ej'u 

 imnietliattdy preceding the Arian, when the civilisation and mari- 

 time skill and enterpnze of the leading Indian nations appear to 

 have attained a high grade, and when their boats became the 

 models of the Ukraindian and Malayu-Polynesian. 



From the Australian ei-a of Indian ethnology to that which 

 immediately preceded the advance of the Arian race beyond the 

 Indus, there must have been a great lapse of lime. Of this we 

 have some measure in the changes which had taken place in t!»e 

 Indo-Australtan region. In Asonesia the Pajman race and 

 formation had spread over the islands, obliterating or modifying 

 the ancient tribes and languages. In India the leading Dravirian 

 tribes had probably been already improved physically by mixture 

 with immigrants of Scythic and Seniitico-Iranian race. Their 

 civilisaiion and lan*iniiges had certainly been deeply modified by 

 foreign influence. Making every allowance for what the Austra- 

 lians and other eastern tribes may have lost when they left the 

 continent and became insularj it is probable that most of the arts 

 for which the Dravirians have non-Sanskritic names were acquired 

 , by tlie race subx-'^jucnt to the Australian ci a. Many of these 



