BALI.
As in Java, the people of Bali took a civilization from India. Unlike the Javanese, they have retained it to the present day.
SUMBAWA, ENDÉ, OMBAY.
At Bali and Java, the type is unequivocally Malay. At Timor it is Malay also, but altered. The Timorians are considerably darker than the Javanese; their features are coarser, their lips are sometimes thick, and their hair often frizzy. In the islands between, occur numerous transitional forms; both in feature and language.
In respect to this last, the islands at the head of this section afford three remarkable vocabularies. 1. The Timbora, from a district of Sumbawa; 2. The Mangarei, from a part of Endé, or Floris; 3. The Ombay, from the island so called; the inhabitants of which are described by Arago as black cannibals with flattened noses and thickened lips.
In each of these vocabularies, Malay words form the greater proportion. In each of them, however, are also found Australian vocables.
The following, from the three very short vocabularies of these three languages, are what I published in the Appendix to Mr. Jukes' Voyage of the Fly.
1. Arm=ibarana, Ombay; porene, Pine Gorine dialect of Australia.
2. Hand=ouine, Ombay; hingue, New Caledonia.
3. Nose=imouni, Ombay; maninya, mandeg, mandeinne, New Caledonia; mena, Van Diemen's Land, western dialect: mini, Mangarei: meoun, muidge, mugui, Macquarie Harbour.