116 SISSANO. 
The inquiry will be facilitated by a synoptical ordering of the mate- 
rial derived from the two great linguistic provinces: 
INHUG SteHt 5 cre fie woe ele Sao ie alge a a ama 33-41, 18-19 
Aspitation preface 4C66i) Mae es Pre hama 17 
Sentivowel preface. / iw da waht bao ee yama 42-44 
rama 22-23 
wama 20 
Nasal preface...) aod. ws Ati toner ewan mama 47-48, 27-30 
nama 49-50, 31 
Palatalipreface 3%: Eero ee eee ee eee kiamat 45 
gama 46 
kama 21 
Lingual’ preface ai, oc. 2 59 ee eee tama 32, I-14 
dama 15-16 
Herein we outline a series of type forms in which we note but a 
single irregularity; kiamat is seen on inspection to be a palatal preface 
to yama, which is itself already prefaced by a semivowel. We can 
conceive of no system of speech whereby a primordial t in mutation 
can chase itself all over the phonetic diagram in more complicated 
moves than here are suggested. Here we find every class and every 
series of consonants save the labials, and these we have already learned 
are so late in acquisition that many of these speakers have not yet 
reached facility in their employment. 
On the other hand, assume a primordial stem ama, which in this 
synopsis I have set down as the nude stem. Very frequently in this 
research we have to recognize the tendency to specialize the diffuse 
noumenon into something particular and to designate this speciali- 
zation by modulating the obscure, because general, by a consonant 
serving as the coefficient of the particular sense. Assume in such 
case that which a glance at the geography of the regions and even the 
slightest acquaintance with their ethnography will amply warrant; 
assume a race of generally allied speech, but broken up into small 
and diffuse communities without means of intercommunication. Let 
each scattered unit of this group feel the impulse, their common herit- 
age, to particularization by consonantal coefficients. “Then in the 
condition of their wide severance into unassociated communities it 
would be idle to expect that the geniusof the speech could direct allalike 
to the choice of the same consonant coefficient. In this wise we can 
comprehend the existence of several types of the ama stem in Indonesia 
before the expulsion of the Polynesians. ‘The movement of Poly- 
nesians out of their early home in the Malay seas was no such going 
out as the great national trek from Goshen; it could not be, for there 
was neither a god to part the waters nor a Moses to lead a race. The 
course in its broad lines was fixed—as fixed as the rails of steam com- 
munication—but it was traversed by small flotillas of refugees seeking 
freedom in their small canoes. Singly and in succession each sought 
his way down through Melanesia, each with his own dialectic equip- 
ment, and thus the diverse types of the ama stem were led into wider 
