I will now add a remark of Mr. Blaxland from Mr. Jukes's Voyage of the _Fly_, which will further illustrate this position:--"The geographical boundary of the Papuan islander is precisely coincident with that of the north-west monsoon. This wind, from the months of November to March inclusive, is the prevalent one over all the space extending from the equator to 10° or 15° south latitude, and in longitude from Sumatra to the Fejee Islands. It is sometimes experienced to the west of Sumatra as far as the north of Madagascar, and it sometimes also extends to the east of the Fejee Islands into the Pacific Ocean; but these extensions are irregular, and its usual eastern boundary is precisely that of the Papuan race before described. Mr. Blaxland deduces from this fact, coupled with the little skill of that race in navigation, the inference, that they have travelled from the west into the Pacific Ocean, and extended their migration only as far as the monsoon allowed them."[84] This gives us the following theory:-- 1. That Kelænonesia was peopled when navigation was so much in its infancy as for the Protonesians to be limited in their migrations by the north-west monsoon. 2. That Polynesia was peopled when it was sufficiently advanced for the same people to be independent of it. 3. That the _differentiæ_ between the lighter and darker Protonesians is referable to the influences of Asiatic civilization. The observations of Mr. Blaxland, taken along with the colour of the people, lead to the inference that the Fijis were peopled from Kelænonesia. The language, however, is against this. The conflict of difficulties is best reconciled by considering them a mixed race; of which the older element belongs to the line of population which supplied Kelænonesia with its inhabitants, the newer to the Polynesian system. If this view be unsatisfactory we must consider them as members of the darker Polynesian population, with its differential characteristics at their _maximum_--a view probable enough of itself, but rendered suspicious by the fact of its occurring so precisely in the neighbourhood of Kelænonesia. That they form a true transition between the Kelænonesians and Polynesians, _as a continuation_ of a line of population from the New Hebrides to Polynesia, is of all views the most improbable. In the opinion of the present writer, the Fiji Islands are the localities where the stream of population which went _round_ New Guinea met, and amalgamated with the extremity of the line that came _across_ that country; the antagonism between the evidence of the language, the evidence of the physical conformation being the effect of the intermixture. Respecting the ethnological relations of the Andaman and Nicobarian islanders, I am not prepared with an opinion. * * * * *