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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 715 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Key KEI ISLANDS [Ke  , a See also:group in the Dutch See also:East Indies, in the residency of See also:Amboyna, between 5° and 6° 5' S. and 131° 50' and 133° 15' E., and consisting of four parts: Nuhu-Iut or See also:Great Kei, Roa or Little Kei, the Tayanda, and the Kur group . Great Kei differs physically in every respect from the other See also:groups . It is of See also:Tertiary formation (See also:Miocene), and has a See also:chain of volcanic elevations along the See also:axis, reaching a height of 2600 ft . Its See also:area is 290 sq. m., the See also:total See also:land area of the group being 572 sq. m . All the other islands are of See also:post-Tertiary formation and of level See also:surface . The group has submarine connexion, under relatively shallow See also:sea, with the Timorlaut group to the See also:south-See also:west and the chain of islands extending See also:north-west towards See also:Ceram; deep See also:water separates it on the east from the Aru Islands and on the west from the inner islands of the See also:Banda Sea . Among the products are coco-nuts, See also:sago, See also:fish, trepang, See also:timber, See also:copra, See also:maize, yams and See also:tobacco . The See also:population is about 23,000, of whom 14,900 are pagans, and 8300 Mahommedans . The inhabitants are of three types . There is the true Kei Islander, a Polynesian by his height and See also:black or See also:brown wavy See also:hair, with a complexion between the Papuan black and the See also:Malay yellow . There is the pure Papuan, who has been largely merged in the Kei type . Thirdly, there are the immigrant See also:Malays .

These (distinguished by the use of a See also:

special See also:language and by the profession of Mohammedanism) are descendants of natives of the Banda islands who fled eastward before the encroachments of the Dutch . The pagans have See also:rude statues of deities and places of See also:sacrifice indicated by See also:flat-topped See also:cairns . The Kei Islanders are skilful in See also:carving and celebrated See also:boat-builders . See C . M . Kan, " Onze geographische kennis der Keij-Eilanden," in Tijdschrift Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (1887); See also:Martin, " See also:Die Kei-inseln u. ihr Verhaltniss zur Australisch-Asiatischen Grenzlinie," ibid. See also:part vii . (1890); W . R. See also:van Hoevell, " De Kei-Eilanden," in Tijdschr.Batavzan . Gen . (1889) ; " Verslagenvan de wetenschappelijke opnemingen en onderzoekingen op de Keij-Eilanden " (1889–1890), by Planten and Wertheim (1893), with See also:map and ethnographical See also:atlas of the south-western and south-eastern islands by Pleyte; See also:Langen, Die See also:Key- See also:oder Kii-Inseln (See also:Vienna, 1902) .

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