2. _A population of the character of the Bugis_, _i.e._ the population of the Archipelago, as developed by the influence of the sea-coast and the commerce that it evolved. 3. _A population of the interior of the Dyak_(?) _type._--Respecting these last I have not the definite information I could wish for. Small as are some of the islands--Amboyna and Tidor--tribes inferior and subordinate to the natives of the coasts and town, have been ascribed to the interior. Forrest states that these are Papua. This they are likely enough to be. Still it would not be surprising if they were light-coloured, and of the Dyak type. Since the publication of Sir Stamford Raffles' tabulated vocabularies for these parts, I have looked in vain for any vocabulary representing a language other than the Malay. The Guebé vocabulary of Durville is Malay, and the Amboyna and Ceram vocabularies of Roorda van Eysingen are Malay. The European influences have been Portuguese in the first instance. Afterwards and, at present, Dutch. Chinese settlements also are numerous. Eastward of the Molucca Islands we come to New Guinea and the islands in its immediate neighbourhood. These belong to another department of the subject. The division at present to be noticed is the Philippine portion of the Malay area. This lies northward to the parts already described, and may have received its population by any one (or more than one) of the following lines of connexion. 1. _The Long island of Palawan._--Luçon, Mindoro, Busvagaon, Calamian, Palawan, Balabac, _North-western Borneo_. 2. _The Sulu Archipelago._--Mindanao, Basilian, the Sulus, _North-eastern Borneo_. 3. _Sangir and the islands to the north and south of it_--Mindanao, Serangani, Sangir, Siao, the Guning Tellu country in the _North-east of Celebes_. 4. _Mindanao, Serangani Salibabo, Gilolo_: Gilolo being equidistant between Celebes and Papua. The first of these lines is the most probable. PALAWAN. Palawan, or Paragoa, is mentioned more from its prominence as a continuity of Borneo than for the sake of description. It is little known: partially under the Spaniards, partially independent. THE SÚLÚS. These are also stepping-stones from Borneo. They are Malay; and the headquarters of a Malay power; the most piratical of these seas. The Sultan of Sulu is the terror of the Dyaks of Borneo. He is also the sovereign of part of that island, of part of Palawan, and of the Cayagan group. I only know the short Sulu vocabulary of Rienzi. THE PHILIPPINES. _Divisions._--1. The southern island of Magindano, or Mindanao. 2. The northern island of Luçon, or Luçonia. 3. The Bissayan Archipelago between the two. Of this last, the most important islands are Mindoro, Samar, Leyte, Panay, and the Isola de Negros. _Population._--Malay and Negrito.