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rang Binua_ of Borneo. In the Philippines the Semang complexion re-appears. But the prolongation of the eastward line of migration takes us through the Mariannes and Ladrones to Polynesia; and here the magnitude of the islands decreases; in other words, the influences of the sea-air become greater. The aliment becomes almost wholly vegetable. The separation from the civilizational influences of Asia amounts to absolute isolation. Of the general ethnology of the South Sea Islanders I say nothing. The reasons which took me over China, Arabia, and the Malayan peninsula, _sicco pede_, spare the necessity of details here. In the Sandwich Islands there is a constitution. In Tahiti, a school of native Christian Missionaries. New Zealand exhibits the contrast between the darker and lighter-coloured Oceanic populations in so remarkable a manner as to have engendered the notion that two stocks occupy the island. If it were so, the fact would be remarkable and mysterious. How _one_ population found its way to a locality so distant is by no means an easy question; whilst the assumption of a second family of immigrants just doubles its difficulty.[68] * * * * * In Java the proper Malay influences have been so great as to leave but few traces of the _Orang Binua_; and, earlier even than these, those of India were actively at work. East of Bali, however, the _Orang Binua_ re-appear, and here the type is that of the Semangs. From Ombay, parts of Ende, and parts of Sumbawa, we have short vocabularies--short, but not too scanty to set aside the hasty, but accredited, assertion of the Australian language, having nothing in common with those of the Indian Archipelago.[69] I feel as satisfied that Australia was peopled from either Timor or Rotti, as I do about the Gallic origin of the ancient Britons. I believe this because the geographical positions of the countries suggest it. I believe it, because the older and more aboriginal populations of Timor and Rotti approach, in physical character, the Australian. I believe it, because the proportion of words in the vocabularies alluded to is greater than can be attributed to accident; whilst the words themselves are not of that kind which is introduced by intercourse. Besides which, no such intercourse either occurs at the present moment, or can be shown to have ever existed. Australia agrees with parts of Africa, South America, and Polynesia,
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