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MAIAT. 
in the Indian Ocean, and the Japanese empire, with the islands to the north thereof in the Chinese 
Sea, every inhabited spot of land in the Indian and Pacific Oceans is occupied by tribes of one 
and the same race which is embraced by this division. Not only is this race to be found spread 
over these islands, but apparently nowhere else. " In the peninsula of Malacca," says Dr. Latham, 
" and on no other part of the main-land of Asia, is an Oceanic tribe to be detected." Although 
united by naturalists, the Oceanic races exhibit two types. One class is yellow, olive, brunette, or 
brown, with long, black, and straight hair. Another class is black rather than yelloAv ; the hair 
is sometimes long and straight, but in other cases crisp, curly, frizzy, or even woolly. The social, 
moral, and intellectual difference betAveen these two classes is not less than their physical. The 
black division inhabits New Guinea, Austraha, Tasmania, New Ireland, and the islands between it 
and New Caledonia. The brown division occupies all the rest of the Oceanic area, Sumatra, Bor- 
neo, Java, the Moluccas, the Philippines, the South Sea Islands, the Carolinas, &c. The names 
given to these divisions are as folloAVs : 
1. For the lighter-complexioned straight-haired type — Malay. 
2. For the type that partakes of the character of the African negro inhabiting New Guinea, 
Australia, and what may be called the continuous localities for the unmixed black — Negrito. 
