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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1850. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO! EMBRACING ENQUIRIES INTO THE CONTINENTAL RELATIONS OF THE INDO-PACIFIC ISLANDERS. BT J. R. LOGAN. From the time of Captain Cook's voyages, an impression has prevailed that a certain degree of relationship connects all the Oceanic tribes from Easter Island to Sumatra, and, reaching directly across the Indian Ocean, embraces the people of Madagascar. This has led to many investigations into the extent and cause of so remarkable a circumstance, but it will suffice at present to advert to those of Marsden, Crawfurd, Humboldt, Bopp and Hale which have been directed almost entirely to philological evidence, and to those of Lesson, one of the ablest of the original enquirers into the analogies of a physical kind. The first held the opinion that all the races were offshoots from one stock, the language of which, the Great Polynesian, originating probably in Sumatra, was preserved to a certam extent by each, while separation had produced all the great and numerous differences which we now find. Mr Crawfurd, on the other hand, believes that each originated in a rude horde speaking a language of its own. The more barbarous races retain original and peculiar languages, while the more improved, still preserving their ancient tongue as the basis or radical portion of their present one, have incorporated with it a number of foreign elements, all of which he resolves into the great Polynesian language, the language of the adjacent tribes, Sanskrit, Arabic, a few words of other Asiatic languages, and a still smaller portion of the languages of Europe. The Great Polynesian language he considered to have been that of an indigenous civilized nation which, in various degrees, disseminated its language and civilization over the rest of the Arc...

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