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proud, frank, generous, true to their friends, and affectionate
in disposition. In physique they are well-proportioned.
They step with an independent gait. ' They are not industrious.
They have no acquisitiveness. In an ungenial clime,
among selfish worldlings, they would starve. They exemplify
the command, " Take no thought for the morrow."
Some of them are endowed with rather a high order of
intellect.
Their foreheads, though full, are larger in the perceptive
than the reflective range.
The Malay nobility, usually exceedingly wealthy, are
called Rajahs. These, with the Maha Rajahs^ a rank
higher, are now educating their children in Europe. The
Rajah of Johore has eighty thousand subjects. His position
is nearly equal to that of a petty king in Continental
Europe.
WHENCE THE JVIALAY EACB ?
America, young and ambitious, is not all of the world.
Who were the mound-builders of the West ? From whence
the aboriginal red Indians ? Before the American Continent
had been pressed by human feet, Asian civilizations had
flourished and died.
Saying, nothing of theories pre-historic,
there are solid reasons for believing that the Malays were
originally a composite of Central Africans and Mongolians.
In fact, both tradition and inscription unite in teaching, that,
long ere the Pyramids reared their mighty forms, the Malays
were conquered by powerful kings from the north. Twice
brought under the yoke of foreign rulers from the north and
north-east, they inherited from that nationality now known
as the Chinese. Each invasion necessarily left the racial
effect upon the posterity.
Do not shrug the shoulders at the mention of Africa.
Neither Congo nor Congo negroes constitute all of Africa.
And, further, all Ethiopians did not originally have thick
lips, a flat nose, and short, knotty hair. Cushite history
proves this. The color, however, was always dark, or jet