[161] M. O. Beauregard has compared 120 common words and numerals in dialects from Madagascar to Easter Island, and proves that all are affined to the pure Malay, though with many verbal admixtures from other sources. Bulletin de la Société d’ Anthropologie, 1886, pp. 520-527.
[162] “On ne peut guère mettre en doute que les vrais Malais appartiennent au groupe des races à petite taille et à tête plus ou moins ronde de l’Asie.” Hovelacque et Hervé, Précis d’ Anthropologie, p. 470.
[163] See Friedrich Müller, Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. II., Ab. II., s. 1-3.
[164] Compare Fr. Ratzel, Völkerkunde, Bd. II., s. 371. Dr. Hamy and Mr. Keane have questioned the relationship of the Battaks.
[165] Dr. O. Finsch, Anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in der Sudsee, s. 1. (Berlin, 1884.)
[166] A. Thompson, “On the Osteology of the Veddahs,” in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1889. “Veddah” in Sanscrit means “hunter.”
[167] On the inhabitants of Boru, see G. W. Earl, Native races of the Indian Archipelago, p. 185.
[168] Other Hypotheses about the Polynesians are that they are an autochthonous race developed in New Zealand (Lesson et Martinet, Les Polynésiens, Paris, 1884); that they came from America; that they are of Aryac descent (Fornander).
The migrations of the Polynesians have been closely studied by Horatio Hale, Ethnography and Philology of the U. S. Exploring Expedition, pp. 116-196 (1847). Many later writers have pursued the subject.
[169] The sacred legends and rites of the Polynesians have been collected by Bastian, Inselgruppen in Oceanien (Berlin, 1883), and other writers.