17. Bolang hitam, on N.W. coast between Menado and Licoupang. These nine languages (9 to 17), with many others, are spoken in the N.W. Peninsula of Celebes, by the people called Alfuro. These languages are falling into disuse, and Malay is becoming the general medium of communication. Most of the people are being converted to Christianity.
18. Sanguir islands and Siau ; the inhabitants resemble the people of Menado.
19. Salibabo islands also called Talaut.
20. Sulu islands, E. of Celebes, Malays of the Moluccas type ; Muhammadans.
21, 22, 23. Cajeli, Wayapo, Massaratty, three villages on the E. side of Bourn. These people are allied to the natives of Ceram ; Cajeli people are Mnham madans.
24. Amblau island, S.E. of Bouru ; Muhammadans.
25. Ternate, the most northern island of the Moluccas. Inhabitants somewhat mixed with indigenes of Gilolo.
26. Tidore, the next island of the Moluccas. Inhabit ants undistinguishable from those of Ternate.
27. Kaioa islands, at N. of Batchian.
28. Batchian ; Muhammadans ; inhabitants like the preceding.
29. Gani, at a village on the S. Peninsula of Gilolo. Moluccan Malays, Muhammadans.
30, 31. Sahoe and Galela, at villages in N. Gilolo. In habitants called Alfuro. They are indigenes of Polynesian type, but brown skins and Papuan hair and features ; pagans.
32. Liang, at villages on the N. coast of Amboyna. Of mixed Malay and Polynesian type, they are Muhammadans or Christians.
33. Morella and Mamalla, at villages in N.W. coast of Amboyna.
34. Batumerah, at a suburb of Amboyna. Inhabitants of the Molucca Malay type ; Mubammadans.
35. Lariki Asilulu, Wakasiho, in W. Amboyna ; Muhammadans from Ternate.
36. Saparua island, at E. of Amboyna. Inhabitants of the brown Polynesian type, and speaking the same language as those of Ceram, opposite.
37, 38. Awaiya and Camarian, at villages on the S. of Ceram. Indigenes of Polynesian type, now Christians.
39, 40. Teluti and Hoya, Ahtiago and Tobo, at villages on the S. coast of Ceram. Mixed brown Papuan or Polynesian and Malay type ; Muhammadans.
41. Ahtiago, indigenes, inland from Ahtiago. Alfuro of brown Papuan or Polynesian type ; pagans.
42. Gah, at E. Ceram, Alfuro of Ceram.
43. Wahai, at N. coast of Ceram. Inhabitants of mixed race, speak several dialects of this lan guage ; Muhammadans.
44. Goram, at small islands E. of Ceram. Of mixed /race ; Muhammadans.
45. .Matabello, at small islands S.E. of Ceram. Brown Papuan or Polynesian race ; pagans.
46. Tear, at small islands S.E. of Matabello. Brown Papuan or Polynesian race ; pagans.
47. Ka islands, on the V. of the Aru islands, trno black Papuans • pagans.
48. Aru talands, W. of N. Guinea ; true Papuans.
49. Mysol coast, N. of Ceram, seml-eivilised Papuans, with mixture of Moluccan Malaya.
50. Mysol interior, true Papuans ; pagans.
51. Dorey, at N. coast of N. Guinea, true Papuans ; pagans.
52, 53, 54. Toto, Vaiqueno in E. Timor, Brissi in W. Timor. Intermediate between the true and the brown Papuans ; pagans.
55, 56. Savu and Rotti. Islands west of Timor, of mixed race, with. apparently much of the Hindu type.
57, 58. Allor and Solor. Islands between Flores and Timor, inhabitants of dark Papuan type.
59. Baju, a roaming tribe of fishermen of Malayan type, all over the Archipelago.
Professor Keane enumerates 112 Australasian tribes and languages, when he gives the names of many islands and districts and races in Austral asia :— The Languages (f India.—One of the most interesting chapters in Mr. Plowden's report on the census of British India is that relating to the statistics of language. From this we find that English is spoken as their native language by 202,920 persons, and Portuguese by 10,523.
Of the latter, however, only 147 were born in Portugal, and of the former Mr. Plowden says it is believed that not more than 150,000 are pure British. Tho remainder embraces a certain number of Eurasians, who may vary from indi viduals approaching so closely to Europeans as not to be distinguishable from them, or again may approach so closely to natives in appearance as otherwise to be undistiuguishable from them. The other European tongues are the languages of a comparatively small number of people. For instance, French is the language of only 1510 persons ; German, of 1471 ; Italian, of 804 ; Swedish, of 310 ; Spanish, of 126 ; Dutch, of 114; Norwegian, of 375; Danish, of 189 ; Russian, of 112 ; Greek, of 193 ; IIungarian, of 12 ; Finnish, of 7 ; Roumanian, of 6 ; Polish, of 4 ; Flemish, of 3 ; Swiss, of 2 ; and Sclavonie, of 1. Welsh, which is, unaccountably, not in cluded in Mr. Plowden's list of cultivated dialects, is spoken by 205 ; Scotch, by 124 ; Gaelic, by 149 ; Irish, by 158 ; and Celtic, by 2 persons. The French-speaking section of the community numbers 1510, of whom the larger proportion (625) live in Madras. There are 145 Frenchmen in the Bombay Presidency. It will surprise many persons to learn that the German-speaking population in India is slightly less numerous than the French. The former, according to Mr. Plowden, number 1471. The British-born population of Bengal, notwithstanding its large planting community, was considerably below that of Bombay. This fact is referred to by Mr. Plowden, who points out that the largest number of British-born persons is found in the North Western Provinces (20,184) and the Panjab (17,590), owing to the heavy garrisons in those parts of India. Bombay (exclusive of the Feuda tory States) follows with 13,772, and Bengal with only 10,583. The other provinces and states stand as follow :—Madras, 5883; Burma, 5346; Central India, 4978 ; the Nizam's Dominions, 2956 ; the Central Provinces, 2774 ; Mysore, 2686 ; Ajmir, 872 ; Assam, 795 ; Baroda, 267 ; Coorg, 134 ; the Feudatory States of Bombay, 98 ; and Berar, 97. Mr. Plowden thus classifies the English-speaking population :—Born in the United Kingdom, 89,015 ; Eurasians (persons of mixed parentage), 62,085 ; born of British parents outside the United Kingdom, 50,360 ; born in America, Australia, and at sea, 2098. Of the eighty-nine thousand odd born in the United Kingdom, nearly fifty-six thousand males are in the army, and about three thousand in the Civil Service. When to this is added the wives and families of British military and civil officers, it will be seen how insignificant, numerically, the non-official portion of the English community in India still is. In his list of the great cities of India, Mr. Plowden places Bombay, with its 772,196 in habitants, first, and Calcutta (766,298) second. He contends, however, that the population of Howrah, on the right bank of the river Hoogly, should be added, which would bring up the number of inhabitants of the Bengal capital to 871,504. From the chapter on the religions of the people, we find that the Parsees of the various presidencies aggregate 86,397, of whom 78,973 are to be found in Bombay and its Feuda tory States, and 8118 in Baroda. There are 916 Parsecs in Central India, 638 in Hyderabad, 462 in the Panjab, 399 in the Central Provinces, 242 in the Berars, 156 in Bengal, 143 in Madras, 114 in the North-West Provinces, 83 in Burma, 75 in Ajmir, 47 in Mysore, 21 in Coorg, 7 in Rajput ana, and 3 in the Feudatory States of the Panjab.