LANGUAGES AND RACES. 
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which have not only borrowed nothing from the Malayan languages, 
but conferred little or nothing on them, notwithstanding the inter¬ 
course and settlement of centuries. 
It is a striking fact, that not a word of any Malayan language is 
to be found in any of the many languages of Australia, I should 
have expeeted them, for example, in the language of Raffle’s Bay, 
which is close to the stations frequented, probably for many ages, by 
the Tripang fishers of Macassar ; but there is not a word to be found 
in it. This is not to be accounted for by difference of race or dif¬ 
ference of idiom, for the languages of the Negro races of the Ar¬ 
chipelago contain Malayan words ; and so does that of the far more 
distant Easter island, of which, in so far as pronunciation is con¬ 
cerned, the genius is more remote from the Malayan than is that of 
the Australian, 
The absence from the Australian languages of all trace of the 
Malayan, can, I think, only be accounted for by the very low social 
condition of the Australian race, which seems, as if it were, to have 
repelled all knowledge derived from a superior one. 
In order to shew the proportion in which Malayan words are 
found in the various languages which have received them, I give a 
few examples. In the Madura, one of the two languages of the is¬ 
land of that name, in 1000 words, it is 581 ; in Sunda, one of the 
two languages of Java, it is 52S ; in Lampung, one of the six lang¬ 
uages of Sumatra, it is 516 ; in the Wugi, one of the many languages 
of Celebes, it drops down to 233; in the Tagala of the Philippines, 
it is but 33 ; in the New Zealand, it is but 20; and in the Malagas!, 
but 17 * 
A few instances occur of the languages of tribes so situated that 
we might fairly expect them to contain a considerable portion of Ma¬ 
lay and Javanese, but which really contain very little. The most re¬ 
markable example of this is the Tambora of Sumbawa. This island 
is only the third from Java, and nearly in the centre of the Archi¬ 
pelago, while the people who speak the language are of the brown- 
complexioned lank-haired race, like those who speak two other lan¬ 
guages of the same island, both containing a large influx of Malay 
