THE SUNDA CHAIN. 
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CHAPTER Xr. 
THE SUNDA CHAIN. 
BjlLieS OF ANCIEVr AACi: in JA.VA — PArUAXS OF FL0T1B9 — 
SOi^OB, PANTAE, LOMBLBX AND OMBAI MARITIMG PTTRSUITS OF 
THE COAST THIBES OF SOLOR — VARIETIES OF CHARACTEa AMOX& 
NATIVES OF TIMOR TRIBES STKAR COEPANG LOCALtTV TN WHICH 
PAPUANS ABK FOUXD — PAP(7A?r OF TIMOU AT SINGAFORE— itODE OF 
CAHRVING ON" TRADE WITH THE NATIVES OF THE SOOTH COA3T — ' 
TRACES OF PAPUANS IN OTHER laLANDE OF TUS ARCHIPELAGO. 
No traces of a Papuan race have been met with iti the 
island of Sumatra, at least as far as the writer is informed. 
Hie relics of a people, who are supposed to have been of 
an anterior race to the present inhabitantSj are found in 
many parts of Java, and a description of several specimens 
of ancient instmmentsj accompanied by figures, is given 
in the " Natuurkundige Tijdschrift voor Nedcrlandsch 
Indie" for the year 1850. Some of these fignrcs repre- 
laent the exact form of the spear-heads of slate and " baked 
sandstone/' which are in common use among the natives 
of the northern parts of Australia, and are made by the 
natives of the interior, who understand the art of splitting 
them from the rough pieces with a few blows of an axe or 
