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in their languages. I should therefore say it was in pre- 
Sanscrit times : that is, before that language reached and 
influenced the languages in the Indian Archipelago. 
At a later period a second migration took place from the 
Archipelago, and moved westward across the Indian Ocean to 
Madagascar. This, we may conclude, was in post-Sanscrit 
times — after that language had to some extent influenced the 
language of the people — for there are a few Sanscrit elements 
in the Madagascar language. 
Later still — I think considerably later — another migration 
took place from the Indian Archipelago and went eastward, 
settling on the north-west islands of Polynesia, commonly 
known as Micronesia. The bulk of these people probably came 
from the Philippines, or some other islands in the north-eastern 
portion of the archipelago. The few Papuan elements which 
now appear to be in the Tarapon people may have been in the 
original people before they migrated. But since they have 
been settled in these islands there has, I believe, been a con- 
siderable infusion of other blood among them. 
Part of this has come from the Sawaiori race. The tradi- 
tions of the people mention Samoa as the place whence some 
of their ancestors came ; and I think we have good reason for 
believing that there is truth in these. But I believe other 
blood has been infused by the arrival of Japanese and Chinese 
junks with their crews at the islands. We have well-authen- 
ticated examples of such junks being driven across the North 
Pacific ; and I think it is highly probable that some of these 
have reached the islands of Micronesia, and that their crews 
have settled among the original people. I have given some 
evidence on this point in a paper recently published in the 
Journal of the Anthropological Institute. I need not therefore 
repeat it here. 
The present paper has not been written with any controver- 
sial object. It has not been prepared from a special point of 
view for the Victoria Institute as distinct from other scientific 
societies. But, from all that it contains, members of the 
Institute will see that no special arguments can be derived 
from Polynesia against the unity of the human family ; for all 
the three races inhabiting those islands have affinities with 
peoples in other parts of the world. 
