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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,
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