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propounded originally by the well-known J. R. LoGAN, and are 
now adopted authoritatively by the Encyclopedia Briiannka, 
1883. A tabular arrangement will best define the exact position 
of our Malays. A classification of the various branches and 
sub-branches of this Malayan stock has, therefore, been ex- 
tracted from the same authoritative source ; which gives, in a 
brief summary, the results of the vast deal pf controversy and 
scholarship expended on the subject in recent years. It 
must be understood > to begin with, that in the general scheme 
of inter-oceanic races, the Malayan stock itself is considered 
by ethnologists to be but one of four main stocks, the others 
being the Papuan, the Mahori, and the Mikronesian, The 
component parts of the main Malayan stock are as follows ; — 
Orang hfaldyu : — Menangkibau, Palembang, and Lampong 
in Sumatra ; the States of the Malay Peninsula ; Borneo ; 
Temate. 
Sttmatran group : — Achinese, Rejangs, Passumahs, 
Javanese group .—Javanese proper, Sundanese, Madurese, 
Balinese. 
Celebes group Bugis, Mang Kassara, and others. 
Philippin egroup : — Ta galas, Bisayans, Bicol, Sulu, and others. 
Outlying groups * — Hovas of Madagascar, Formosan is- 
landers. 
In all these, the distinctly Malay physical type decidedly 
predominates; w^hereas elsewhere in the Archipelago, the so- 
called Malays are often rather " Indonesians," in whom the 
distinctly Caucasic physical type predominates. Such es- 
pecially are the Battaks and 6rang Kubu of Sumatra, the 
Nias and Mentaw^ey islanderSj the Kayans, and many of the 
Dyak tribes of Borneo. 
