592 THE RACES OF MfN [chap. xl. 



They aru both tall nicea. They aj^ree in their love of art 

 and the style of their tlecoratioiis. They are eneryetii;, 

 demonstrative, joyou3, ami laughter-loving, and in all these 

 particulars they difibr \videly from the jMiday. 



I believe, therefore, that the nuniemua intermediate 

 forms that occur ainong the countless inlands of the 

 Pacific, are not mei'ely the result of a mixture of th<ise 

 races, but are, to some extent, truly intermediate or transi- 

 tional; and that the brown and the black, tlie Papuan, 

 the natives of Gilolo aod Ceram, the Eijian, the inhabi- 

 tants of the Sandwich Islands and those of New Zealand, 

 are all varying forms of one great Oceanic or Polynesian 

 race. 



It is, however, quite possible, aod perhaps probable, 

 that the brown Folyupsians were originally the produce of 

 ft mixture of Malays, or some li^^hter coloured Alongol 

 race with the dark Papnand ; but if so, tlie iutermiuf^ling 

 took place at such a retnote epoch, and has b^en so assisted 

 by the continued mtiueiLce of physical couditiona and of 

 natural selection, leading to tlio prcfjcrvatiou of a special 

 type suited to those conditions, tluit it has become a fixed 

 and stable race with no 8i.£,ms of iiiongrelism, and showing 

 siich a decided preponderance of Papuan character, tbfit 

 it can beat be classified as a modification of the Papuan 

 typfe. The occun-ence of a decided Malay element in the 

 Pol3niesian ian<:uage3, has evidently nothing to do with 

 any snch ancient physical conne.xioa It is altogether 

 a recent phenomenon, originating in the i-oamiug habits of 

 the chief Malay tribes ; and this is proved by the fact 

 that we find actual modem words of the Itlahiy and 

 Javanese languages in use in Polynesia, so little dis- 

 guised by peculiarities of pronunciation as to be easily 

 recognisable — not mere Malay roots only to be detected 

 by the elaborate researches of tlie philologist, as would 

 certainly have been the case had their introduction beea as 

 remote as the origin of a veiy distinct race — ^a race a.> 

 difi'erent from the Malay in mental and moral, as it is Ua 

 physical characters. 



As bearing upon this question it is important to point 

 out the harmony which exists, between the line of separu- 

 tion of the human races of the Archipelago and that of 



