ARABIAN AND PERSIAN ADMIXTURE IN THE INCA LANGUAGE, ETC. 243 
have very full and explicit traditions, exceedingly well pre- 
served by the Maori of New Zealand. This migration gave the 
Carolines and Samoans their aristocracy or ruling class, just as 
the Norman invasion laid the foundation of England’s ancient 
nobility. This is the second and most substantial thread in the 
fabric. To borrow a figure from the Inca Qicipics or Calculating 
Cord, as Carlyle calls it, a Quipo tlirum. Imagine a parti-coloured 
cord or cable twisted up of different threads, one of hemp, one 
of cotton, one of silk, a fourth of coir-fibre, and you will have 
an idea of the fabric of a South Sea or Peruvian language. 
Comparative philology untwists them one by one. 
(3) Other threads in the fabric of South Sea speech are Aino 
Eskimo, Innuit, and possibly the Hydali of Vancouver. These 
are the early and primitive threads. These race-influences have 
been so covered up by the later migrations, and so overshadowed 
by the bolder and newer figures in the pattern, if I may call it 
so, that they need not enter much into our calculations to-night. 
Anyhow, nothing but barbarism could have come by this route 
to America. 
(4) Then there are some few words in the Caroline and 
Gilbert Islands, and a fewer still in Rarotongan that have 
evidently come from the wrecked crews of Japanese, Siamese, 
and Chinese junks.* 
I give a quotation from Preface of Book entitled A Javanese 
Columbus or the First of the Incas. 
“ In A.D. 1024 Mahomet of Ghisni made the fifth of his destructive 
invasions of Hindustan, and plundered the great Temple of the 
Moon Somnauth in S. Gujerat, obtaining an enormous booty of 
jewels.” 
This was the commencement of a succession of determined Arab 
inroads by land and sea throughout the East, and extending from 
India, first to Sumatra, then to the neighbouring island of Java, 
itself a colony from Gujerat, and a mighty centre of Hindu 
civilisation. The tide of Mohammedan invasion swept through the 
Malay Archipelago right up to the Philippines in the north and to 
the Moluccas on the east, where the great gateway of Gilolo opens 
* The word for wrestling in E. Polynesia, Kukumi or Kumi, which is 
pure Japanese, Kumi. 
These stray emigrants, if they reached the American coast at all, 
would much more likely have struck the coast much higher up, in British 
Columbia, California and Central America. So we may eliminate the odd 
threads in the fabric from our consideration as they do not affect to any 
great degree the history of the South Sea Islanders, or that of the Incas 
and their civilisation. 
