Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . appears to have been deflected,somewhat above its intersection withthe Lan-Thsang river, a secondary move-ment, tending almost directly to thesoutheast and termi-nating in twobranches, the onem Southern Annamind the other on thegulf of Tonquin. By this lattermovement the An-namese peninsula,between the Cam-bodia and the SouthChina sea, was pop-ulated. It appears,however, that theSiamese peninsula,west of the Cambo-dia, received
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . appears to have been deflected,somewhat above its intersection withthe Lan-Thsang river, a secondary move-ment, tending almost directly to thesoutheast and termi-nating in twobranches, the onem Southern Annamind the other on thegulf of Tonquin. By this lattermovement the An-namese peninsula,between the Cam-bodia and the SouthChina sea, was pop-ulated. It appears,however, that theSiamese peninsula,west of the Cambo-dia, received its eth-nic stream from adeparture which wasmade high up inThibet, and that this -latter migratory line crossed the Annam-ese dispersion on its way to the peculiarity of the Doubts respect-ethnic distribution of Siam i^^,1^7p?nttis found in the fact that populations south of latitude fif-teen degrees north all partake of thecharacter of the Polynesian Mongo-loids, as distinguished from the Asi-atics. Ethnographers haA^e thereforeagreed to regard the extreme of thepeninsula atid the adjacent islandsof Sumatra and Borneo as having re-. 512 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ceived a Polynesian stream eitherturned back by reversal from the Micro-nesian archipelago, or else deduced by achange of ethnic character from theMalayo-Chinese stem. The Polynesianline which we are here considering maybe traced through Sumatra and North-ern Borneo, from which the migrationappears to have turned northward intothe Philippine islands, and thence to theeast into Micronesia. Here it is that we besfin to consider the
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