. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. INHABITANTS OF INDONESIA. 77 In the Sunda Islands and Celebes, as well as in a part of the Moluccas, the dominant, if not the exclusive race, is the Malayan, which constitutes the bulk of the population, or which at least has absorbed and assimilated most of the other ethnical elements. But whatever resemblances they may present to each other throughout the archipelago, these Malayan peoples are everywhere divided into natural groups, according to the geographical environment, their diverse inter- minglings, their diet and different degrees of bar
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. INHABITANTS OF INDONESIA. 77 In the Sunda Islands and Celebes, as well as in a part of the Moluccas, the dominant, if not the exclusive race, is the Malayan, which constitutes the bulk of the population, or which at least has absorbed and assimilated most of the other ethnical elements. But whatever resemblances they may present to each other throughout the archipelago, these Malayan peoples are everywhere divided into natural groups, according to the geographical environment, their diverse inter- minglings, their diet and different degrees of barbarism or culture. The Malays, properly so called, who closely resemble those of the neighbouring peninsula, and who have given their name to the whole race, occupy the coastlands of Sumatra and Borneo, with the intermediate islands. The Javanese, as indicated by their name, inhabit the greater part of Java, and have also spread farther east Fig. 26.—Inhabitants of Indonesia. Scale 1 : 45,000, LasC or urec^ wicb 120° Malays of divers Indonesians 1 Annamites, nationalities. Batta, Dyak, Minahassa, Alfuru. Papuans. , 600 Miles. to the two islands of Bali and Lombok. The Sundanese dwell in the western districts of Java, on the shores of the Sunda Strait separating that island from Sumatra. The Bughis hold the south-western peninsula of Celebes as well as the north coast, and all the adjacent islands. Lastly, each separate land has its more or less pure or mixed populations, bearing an endless variety of tribal names. The term " Alfuru," however, collectively applied in Celebes and farther east to all the wild tribes driven from the coastlands to the interior, has no racial significance. It simply indicates the social condition of the populations which have kept aloof from the Mohammedan Malays, some of which are of lighter /complexion even than the Javanese, while others resemble in colour and aspect the dark Papuans of New Please note that these images
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