I say _at least in some of its varieties_, because within the narrow range of the Malaccan peninsula and the island of Borneo we find no less than three different types. In _Polynesia_ one of these, and in _Kelænonesia_ another becomes exaggerated--so much so, as to suggest the idea of a different origin for the populations. _a._ The _Malays_ are referable to the first type. Mahometans in religion, they partake of the civilization of the Arab and Indian, and differ but slightly from the Indo-Chinese nations; the complexion being dark and the hair straight. The Mahometan Malays, however, are no true aborigines. They are not only a new people on the peninsula, but they consider themselves as such; and those occupants which they recognize as older than themselves, they call _Orang Binua_, or _men of the soil_. Of these some have a darker complexion and crisper hair than the intruding population: and when we reach a particular section called-- _b._ The _Semang_, we find them described as having curly, crisp, matted, and even woolly hair, thick lips, and a black skin. These, like most of the other _Orang Binua_, are Pagans. Still their language is essentially Malay; and their physical conformation passes into that of the Malays by numerous transitions. _c._ Thirdly, we find in Borneo the _Dyaks_. Many of these are as much fairer than the Malays as the Semang are darker. Their language, however, belongs to the Malay class; whilst their religion and civilization may reasonably be supposed to be that of the Malays previous to the influences of Brahminism from India, Mahometanism from Arabia, and the changes effected in their habits, language, and appearance effected thereby. It is not too much to say that within the peninsula of Malaya, the Johore Archipelago, and the island of Borneo, each of these types, and every intermediate form as well, is to be found. _Malacca._--The town of Malacca is a town of Mahometan Malays, but I believe that the eastern parts of Wellesley province are on the frontier of the _Jokong_, _Jakon_, or _Jakun_. These are _Orang Binua_, or aborigines--at least as compared with the true Malays. In the eighth century--I am drawing an illustration from the history of our own island, and its relations to continental Germany--the Anglo-Saxons of Great Britain, themselves originally Pagan Germans, took an interest in the spiritual welfare of the so-called Old Saxons, a tribe of Westphalia, immediately related to their own continental ancestors, these Old Saxons having retained their primitive Paganism. The mission partly succeeded, and partly failed.