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8. See *Gerīni-Researches*, pp. 85 ff and 101-3. There appears to be some other evidence, however, in support of Gerini's view that a stream of dark emigrants of the negrito race, the descendants of the so-called Rākṣasas of old, came to Malaya from Southern India and were followed by their early successors, the Dravidians, who constituted the pre-Aryan population of India. cf. Elliot Smith, *Human History* pp. 69-71. But Gerini exaggerates the cultural importance of these prehistoric movements of population. He confounds them with later ones that took place in historical times after Southern India was more or less