Chief Divisions.—1. The Protonesians. 2. The Polynesians. 3. The Malegasi.(?)
PROTONESIAN BRANCH.
Physical Conformation.—Colour—-different shades of brown and yellow. Face, flat; nose, short; eyes and hair, black and straight; beard, scanty; stature, short. Frontal profile, retiring; maxillary, prognathic; occipito-frontal, brackykephalic; orbits, angular.
Area.—Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Timor, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, the Philippines, &c.
Distribution.—With the exception of the Malayan Peninsula, insular. Islands, large as well as small.
Religion.—Paganism, Hinduism, and Mahometanism.
Social and Physical Development.—Maritime, commercial, and piratical; imperfect agriculture; never nomadic; partially industrial. Foreign Influences—Arabic and Hindu.
MALACCA.
Locality.—The extremity of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula.
Population.—Mahometan Malays; Blacks of the Malay area; tribes of intermediate character, both physically and morally.