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eastern to the western division. But all along the frontiers of both 

 worlds there tire blending*, overlapping*, read intermixture*) of all 

 sorts, while in the Philippines in otter respects mainly Asiatic, the 

 Aboriginal element wan clearly not light Ltii ilark. It inoovioUN that 

 miin appeared much too lata on the scene to be affected by the 

 original distribution of land and water ; jus for instance, in rniov.ene 



li h. Ib'ticii tin* Oceanic division cannot here be taken into 



accruing and the presence of a dark people to far west as the 

 AtitbuiuLts 1-Iju^-, and Lil! «piiti! ti • i ril J v aU» iii ,biv;i. might le.td 

 r,- hi Mipi'ti-i' tlii»t iIm- v!]nle iovji Vi'aa originally the rxelusive 

 domain of this nice, tin tin- i^itii .m the light-rolmjrod people 

 wmiltl have to be regarded an everywhere intruders from the Asiatic 

 mainland, a OOBChllidP which seems abo to be justified on broader 

 anthrojwdoyicdl eoiisiili'jiLtson.s hi general it may be assumed ihul 

 the dark is the aboriginal, the li^ht the intruding element through- 

 out the whole of the Oceanic world, and consequently alao in the 

 Bsftem Ar,']ii|h l.t : _'i.. 



It is commonly supposed that this region i* at present occupied 

 by i.oie light am] nm-dark ru-c -mly— tin- Malays in the west and 

 tin:- Pawateh in tin- ea*t. But more <-an-ial oliM-n-aticni has mently 

 nh-iwn ilmi ilies-i' :ov only the predominant rucea, and that bemntth 

 them are two others, also respectively light mid dark tin- InihiS'E- 

 hiaN's in the weft, and the Negritoes, now restricted to the Philip- 

 pines, ami perhaps to ao me porta of New Guinea. 



The Malays.— -The affinities, general dfaU&C&ristScs, and rauge 

 of the Malay jwoples have been somewhat fully discussed in the first 

 part of this work, and here it will he sufficient to determine their 

 portion in the Eastern Archipelago. The Ornnji MaMijtt, or typieid 

 Malays who -]«i--»k thestaudjinl Malay language, nod who every wlii-re 

 recognise themselves as belonging to a distinct nationality, are 

 centred ehieily in the *oulhmi parts of Sumatra. Here alone tliey 

 form large und compact communities, auch as those of Menangktibau 

 and Puleinhang ; hen: they fir^t row? from the condition of rude and 

 B&VBge tribes, developing a national culture under Hindu and more 

 recently under Mohammedan influence**; here, therefore, ig the 

 true home of the Oceanic ua opposed to the continental Malays, and 

 from this region they spread with the growth of trade and navigation 

 to various other parts of the insular world, which from them often 

 takes the name of the Malay Archipelago. Beyond South Sumatra 

 they are at prwent found sottled chiefly round the coa*t of Borneo ; 

 in Ttdore, Ternali > aud opposite coast of Jilolo; in Batovia, Singa- 



