. India and Malaysia . as the typical Mongolian, and no affinity wassuspected between him and the Malay. This system ofclassification was given up years ago; but ethnologists havebeen slow in assigning a new place to the Malay traces their origin back to a tribe that lived onthe north coast of Sumatra, and migrated thence to the main-land near the site of Malacca, and it is generally admittedthat the Malay language is spoken in greater purity there thanin any other part of the archipelago. But beyond thisslight trace nothing else has been discovered about theirorigin, and very
. India and Malaysia . as the typical Mongolian, and no affinity wassuspected between him and the Malay. This system ofclassification was given up years ago; but ethnologists havebeen slow in assigning a new place to the Malay traces their origin back to a tribe that lived onthe north coast of Sumatra, and migrated thence to the main-land near the site of Malacca, and it is generally admittedthat the Malay language is spoken in greater purity there thanin any other part of the archipelago. But beyond thisslight trace nothing else has been discovered about theirorigin, and very little is known of their history. They arescattered very widely, and speak many languages and dia-lects, and diiferent tribes are often mistaken for members ofdistinct races; but tliey are one as the American Indians,while differing as those diifer in language and tribal peculiari-ties. The agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society atSingapore sells Scriptures in thirty-seven different languages, > > > r. MALA YS/A. 493 most of which are spoken on the islands of the these numerous tribes and dialects are found scatteredover the islands, the mass of the people may be separated intofour great divisions: 1. The typical Malays, who inhabit thepeninsula and the coast regions of Sumatra and Borneo;2. The Javanese, who inhabit Java and parts of the numer-ous adjacent islands; 3. The Bugis, who inhabit the largerportion of Celebes; and, 4. The Tagalas, who inhabit thePhilippine Islands. These four divisions are often spokenof as so many different races; but they are all members ofthe same ethnic family, and they are themselves marked bylines of separation, more or less distinct, between varioussubdivisions. The Dyaks of Borneo, and other similartribes, are often spoken of as aborigines, but they are thoughtby the best authorities to be but ancient branches of the com-mon Malay family. There has been more or less amalgama-tion with other races in some pl
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