THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



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small but not flat none, diluted nostrils, hands and feet small and 

 delicate, lo|?s tliin and weak, coarse black lmir always Innk and 

 round in section, scant or no beard. 



The dvpartaro from lhi» dwription so frcouentlv noiieed in the 

 Archipidii^o must l*t attributed to iutenutxtmu with the bhu-k r'apuau 

 stock in tlm east, mid with * distinct pre- Mn lay Cnucaaie olttiR'tit in the 

 went. The presence of this *' Indonesian " tknimtt, an it 3ji culled by 

 I.ofj^m ami lliuny, may jir»w he repipled as an asecrtaincd fact, tin- recng- 

 t&aim of which will help to ntnove tttjtttY of the difficulties oounectcd with 

 the various relations or the Malays to the surround itur rneea, It at onre 



l-XOllllllS, f<ir juHLUILL-, lliC I1|.1HIIVUI disi Vi-]lt||..V ]■•■! W-l-i-U <liu flll'l^'oillH 



daKcription of tins ordinary Malay nnd th.it of the ItaltriS, OnmR Ku.hu* 

 ami Eininy oihrr Suntatraii actd &.>rm<un peoples drscrihed fUf tall ami robust, 

 with n-jjnliir fuiLtunus, jiymmelriml tifjuro, light complexion, brown and 

 wavy Liair, cmd jjrneral KuruptiaJb appeiirntK*. 



These conHideraiinns nlao enable ua to fix the truo centre o£ 

 dispersion of the Malay race, rather on the mainland than in 

 Sumatra, contrary to the generally received opinion. J£ they are 

 pin *b"dly allied to the- Mongol sl<mrk, it is obvious tlkat ihc curlii-st 

 migration must have been from high Asia southwards to the 

 peninsula, and thence to Sumatra, possibly at a time wln-n the 

 isliirid still formed prirt of the continent. The national traditions 

 L.f ij dis|iurs]uii £ i * mi Monnngkril mi or Palemb.-ing in Kunth Kminitr.-i 

 muni juirordingly \>\- undi-iriLiiod Ju re for L" bite movements, and 

 more CH|)eeialIy to the diffusion of the civilised Malay people, who 

 tir.it acquired a really national development in Sumatra in com- 

 pumlivuly recent times* Fmia this point they spread to the 

 Peninsula, to Borneo, Snlu, and other |*rts of Malaysia apparently 

 since their conversion to Islam, although other waves of migration 

 must have reached Further Indifi, if not from the same region at all 

 events from Java, at much Gutter datu'S. The impulse to these 

 earlier movements was dun to the introduction of Indian culture 

 through the Brahman and Huddling miE-smnaries perhaps two or 

 three centuries before tbe Christian era. 



During still more remote pro-historic times various sections of the 

 Ma 1 ay and Indonesian stocks wore diffused west wards to Madagascar, 

 and eastwards to the Philippines, Formoaa.. Micronesia, mid Polynesia. 

 This astonishing expansion of the Malaysian people throughout the 

 oceanic nroa is sufficiently attested by the diffusion id* a common 

 oceanic (Mnlayo-Piilvncmun) speech from Madagascar to Easter 

 Island, and from Hawaii to Xeiv Zealand, 



The Malays proper have kmp ln-on divided into (hrr<' distinct soeinl 

 groups v — The Orang }ff»An t or " Hen *>f the Bull/' Uud is T tfa« anctvitised 

 wild tribes of the peninsula ; the Orapg4aut, or " Men of the Sea," that 



