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186 AEOUND THE TVOKLD.
black.
There is a lingering Aryan element in Central Africa.
The New Guineans, set down by all ethnological writers as
Malayans, have curly, crispy hair ; it is also long and bushy,
and of it they are very proud. Whenever the negro element
comes in collision with the Mongolian or Malay race,
in its advanced stages, as in Asia, and more recently some
of the Philippine Islands, it melts away much as do wild
animals before civilization.
HOW CAME THE MALAYS INTO NATIONAL POSITION?
Subjective thinkers, as well as geologists, care little for
Jewish records. Usher's, or any other theologian's calculations.
Ruins, monuments, inscriptions, and lingual roots, —
these determine eras of civilization and the colonization of
races.
Eastern traditions state that many, very many thousands
of years since, when a traveler entered a distant country,
having a different colored skin, he was supposed by the more
superstitious to have been dropped from a star, to people a
new portion of the earth ; and accordingly the tribe that
he visited gave him several wives, and sent him adrift to
replenish and populate. But to approach the historical, with
inferences from monumental ruins, inscriptions, and suggestions
from attending unseen intelligences, some eight thousand
years since the Malay Peninsula, and a vast tract of
country north of it, was the great half-way halting-ground
between the Central Africans of the west, and the Chinese
or more northern Mongolians of the east. On these rich
table-lands, abounding in wild grasses, grains, and fruits,
intercrossing caravans with their merchandise rested and
recruited.
Settlements commenced, intermarriages followed,
villages, then cities ; and finally an opulent kingdom was the
result. Becoming proud and depredatory, this kingdom
warred with, and was conquered by, Tartar hordes and Mongolians
;
getting, among other consequences, a fervid infusion
of Northern blood through the lax social relations then prevaihng.