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KAKTEIW GEOGRAPHY. 



of Kedah nnd FtfAtti, or about T N. latitude. The Utter, hTbh 

 doobttfisa intruders from the North in remote pro-historic times, 

 prevail throughout tin:.- smithi-m nml tuii'. li larger division, to which 

 alone the t^rm "Mulnv Lmd " is strictly applicable. The transition 

 between the two races is effected by the Sam-Sams, A half-ca^te 

 Ma^o-Siamese people, King mainly between the 7th ami Hth 

 parallels. These Ram-Hums appear lo he mostly Buddhists like the 

 Siamese, whom they also resemble in their customs, traditions, ami 

 u;itiniial riHpiriiihui-. lis speech nlao they are at least as much 

 Siamese ab Malay, both languages being equally current amount 

 them. The pure Siamese themselves differ in no material respect 

 from the rwH of the inhabitant* oil Siuiu, and need not here Is? 

 further considered. 



The JIi lays, 



Tlie Malays (Orang Malayu, "Malay men") arc the domiiiAnl 

 people, not only in ihe southern Beet ion of tlie Peninsula, but 

 throughout the Eastern Archipelago, where they aire diversely inter- 

 mingled wiih other races, and where they have represented the local 

 cultured .-lenient for over two thousand yours. The Malays proper, 

 that is, those who call themselves by this name, who spenk the 

 standard Mill ay language, and who possess a common sentiment of 

 national unity, aro found in compact masses chiefly in the Malay 

 Peninsula, in the adjacent islands of 1'inung, Bintang, Lingga, 

 Bill ton, Bartgka, and in Sumatra, of which they occupy about one 

 half, mainly in the south, along the cast coaat 1 and on parts of the 

 west coast* In these lands alone they arc really indigenous, nnd 

 regard themsFdves n* the aboriginal population. Elsewhere they are 

 met in scattered communities, chiefly round the coast of Homey, in 

 the Sulu Arehipehigo, in Ti lor. Temale, and some oilier members of 

 Hi- M"h .1 gr.nip, whi-ro lln'v an- held to h>- iiiHud<T". M EBUD%ftatl 



from Sumatra, 



Lon£ considered as an independent division of mankind. Ihe 

 Malays nro now more generally affiliated to tho Mongol stock, of 

 which A. It. Wallace, He Quat refuses, and other eminent naliiralkt* 

 r^ard them as a simple Variety more or less moiiSuVd by mixture 

 with other elements. In fiicf, the typical Malay can scarcely be 

 distinguished anthropologically from the fynieal Mongolian^ Tlr is 

 described hy competent observers as of low stature, averaging little 

 over;' JVi-(, r,f Mlive-yHbiw coitipkxmn, ijir-linin.ir lo light brown or 

 cinnamon, brachycephalous or round-headed, with somewhat flut 

 features, prominent check-kmes, black and slightly oblique eyes. 



