The similarity of language among the various savages races of thePacific islands has been used as an argument by writers on thissubject. The existence of similar languages among races separated byleagues of ocean, across which in historic time they are known to havehad no means of transport, is certainly an argument in favour of theirdescent from a single race occupying a single continent, but theargument cannot be used here, for the continent in question was notAtlantis, but the still earlier Lemuria.