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and 69 Malay : and in the Sunda of Java, 156 of Javanese, and 
only 44 of Malay. 
As soon as we cross the narrow strait that divides Sumatra from 
Java, the proportions are reversed, although we find still a large 
amount of Javanese words. In 1000 words of Lampung we have 
138 exclusively Malay, and 70 exclusively Javanese. 
I should remark that the numerals, when they differ in Malay 
and Javanese, are, even in the remote languages, almost always 
those peculiar to the Javanese, and not to the Malay. These nu¬ 
merals are, 3, 7? 8, and 9 ; and the Malagas!, the Philippine tongues, 
and the Polynesian, with many intermediate languages, afford ex¬ 
amples of this. 
The different means of propagations now specified will I think, 
be sufficient to account for the facts, that such a language, for ex¬ 
ample, as that of the Lampungs, a people lying between and in the 
neighbourhood of the Malay and Javanese, should consist of nearly 
one half of the languages of these two nations ; that the language of 
the remoter Bugis of Celebes, should consist of only one-fourth of 
them, and that in the still more remote Tagala and Bisaya of the 
Philippines, the proportion should drop down to one-thirtieth part. 
I have next to consider how the Malayan words existing in the 
language of Madagascar may have found their way into it. The in¬ 
habitants of Madagascar are Negroes, and in race differ wholly from 
the Malays and Javanese. The whole number of Malayan words in 
the Malagas! does not exceed one fifty-seventh part of the language, 
and they are, as I have shewn, not essential to it. There is, in 
short, nothing in common between the two races, and nothing in 
common between the character of their languages. 
The Indian islanders are ignorant of the existence of Madagascar 
and the people of Madagascar equally so of the existence of the In¬ 
dian Islands. A navigation of 3000 miles of open sea lies between 
them, and a strong trade-wind prevails in the greater part of it. A 
voyage from the Indian Islands to Madagascar is possible, even in 
the rude state of Malayan navigation ; hut return would be wholly 
impossible. Commerce, conquests, or colonization are, consequent- 
