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That the Negritos are the true autochthones of Indo- 
China and Western Malaysia; the Papuans of Eastern 
Malaysia and Western Polynesia. 
That Indo-China, at some very remote period, became 
occupied first by a fair Caucasian race, and later by a yellow 
Mongoloid people. The latter is now represented by the 
Burmese, Siamese, Laos, Annamese, etc., speaking mono¬ 
syllabic toned languages, and the former by the Kambojans, 
Chams, Kuys, and various hill-tribes, speaking polysyllabic 
untoned languages. 
That from these two races have sprung all the peoples— 
other than Negritos and Papuans—now occupying the entire 
Eastern Archipelago from Sumatra to the farthest point of 
Polynesia. 
That the earliest wave of immigration was previous to the 
advent of the Mongol race, and furnished the archipelago 
with a people of nearly pure Caucasian stock, of whom the 
Mentawi islanders of western Sumatra and the Eastern 
Polynesians (Samoans, Tongans, Maoris, Tahitians, etc.) are 
now the only representatives. 
That later waves of immigration, after part fusion of 
Mongol and Caucasian, brought in a mixed people, but with 
a preponderance of Caucasian blood—the “ Pre-Malays ” or 
“ Indonesians ” of various writers—who are widely represented 
in the archipelago (Battaks, Dyaks, etc.) 
That at a still later period what is now known as the 
Malay race developed itself, the Mongol blood predominating. 
Of this people the Malays of the peninsula, the Javanese, 
Sundanese, Ache tribes of Sumatra, and Tagals and Bisayans 
of the Philippines may, among numerous others, be mentioned 
as examples. It will thus be noticed that the Malay is not 
ethnically distinct, but a mixture of two races. 
These views of Professor Keane have been accepted 
by many, as they appear to afford a tolerably complete 
explanation of the difficulties with which the question 
has been hitherto surrounded. There is in any case no 
doubt as to the radical distinctness of the Malays and 
the “ brown Polynesians/' and the term “ Malayo-Poly- 
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