is my chief authority.

[50] For a description of these parts see Major Edwardes' "Year on the
Punjab Frontier."

[51] The best account of the Brahui is to be found in Sir H. Pottinger's
Travels.

[52] In the sixth century, B.C. according to the Buddhist chronology.

[53] Such, at least, is the opinion of the author of "Christianity in
Ceylon," Sir E. Tennent.

[54] Names explained in Chapter iii.

[55] From Callaway's "Translation of the _Kolan Nattannawa_."

[56] Book iii. Sec.. 99.

[57] The same, probably, is the case with the BIDI of Java.

[58] From this language, I imagine that the three following words have
come into the English--two of them being slang and one a sporting
term--_rum_, _cove_, _jockey_.

[59] "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," No. 145.

[60] These names introduce a difficulty: They are _Rajput_ as well.

[61] All of which may be found in the paper already quoted; and all of
which contain numerous Tamul roots.

[62] Since this was written Major-General Briggs' valuable paper on the
_Aboriginal Tribes of India_, has been published in "Transactions of the
British Association," &c., for 1851. Having been seen in MS. by the
present writer it has been freely used.

CHAPTER V.

BRITISH DEPENDENCIES IN THE MALAYAN PENINSULA.--THE OCEANIC STOCK
AND ITS DIVISIONS.--THE MALAY, SEMANG, AND DYAK TYPES.--THE ORANG
BINUA.--JAKUNS.--THE BIDUANDA KALLANG.--THE ORANG SLETAR.--THE
SARAWAK TRIBES.--THE NEW ZEALANDERS.--THE AUSTRALIANS.--THE
TASMANIANS.

Our isolated and small settlements in the Malayan Peninsula,[63] the
depot at Labuan, Sir James Brooke's Rajahship of Sarawak, New Zealand,
the joint protectorate of the Sandwich Islands and Tahiti, Australia,
and Van Dieman's Land, bring us to a new division of the human species,
which is conveniently called the _Oceanic_.

Its divisions and subdivisions are as follows:--

{ PROTONESIANS { MICRONESIANS
{ AMPHINESIANS -{ POLYNESIANS -{ POLYNESIANS
{ { MALAGASI { PROPER
OCEANIC-{
{ { PAPUANS
{ KELAENONESIANS-{ AUSTRALIANS
{ TASMANIANS.

Our settlements are limited to the Protonesian, Proper Polynesian,
Australian, and Tasmanian sections: and we have no political authority
over any of the Malagasi, Micronesians, or Papuans.

With the exception of the occupants of the Malayan Peninsula,