98 THE SUBANU. 
vocabularies in all but this community of 90 vocables, still more diffi- 
cult in view of the essentially different method of grammatical treat- 
ment. It is far more reasonable to consider that this community of 
vocables is the residuum of the draft made independently by Subanu 
and Bontoc, at some remote period of time and in some remote dis- 
tributing point of migration, upon the common stock of archetypal 
Malayan speech. ‘That the source language of this community was 
already in possession of archetypal Polynesian elements is made clear 
by the further and most important fact that in this community of 90 
vocables preserved at the far north of Luzon and at the far south of 
Mindanao, separated by ten degrees of latitude, no less than 55 are 
identifiable as in Polynesian possession at the present day. Much 
of this Subanu-Bontoc community in the possession of the common 
element of Malayan and Polynesian is identifiable with the Proto- 
Samoan and not with the Tongafiti migration of the Polynesians into 
the Pacific. 
What bearing this may have upon the problem of the great equa- 
torial archipelago I leave contentedly to the students of Malayan lin- 
guistics. Its bearing upon my own theme of Polynesian speech is clear. 
In the advance of the first Malayu migrants upon the primal Polyne- 
sians settled in the Java seas there was a mixing period during which 
the Malayan language was enriched by the assumption of Polynesian 
vocables, evidence of which admixture survives in some 250 vocables 
which we identify as common to the two language families. Further- 
more in this mixing period the interchange of speech material was 
almost wholly one-sided, assumption by the Malay from the Poly- 
nesian. ‘This is established by the fact that there is not a single item 
in this community for which a Malayan source may be exclusively 
proved, and in but one doubtful case (timae) is there a single suggestion 
that a secondary Malayan form is discoverable in the Polynesian. 
This mixing period was succeeded by an accession of new Malayan 
strength as new hordes poured in upon the archipelago. In this more 
violent stage the Polynesian ancestors began their first flight into the 
safety of the empty Pacific, the earliest Malays either fled to yet more 
remote islands, a movement in which we believe the Subanu in one 
flight and the Bontoc in another to have participated; or else they 
remained at the spots of their first settlement and welcomed their kins- 
men, thereby carrying over to the later comers more or less of the new 
vocabulary stock which they had acquired and thus securing its very 
uneven distribution throughout Malaysia as now within our study. 
