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See also:MICRONESIA See also:MELANESIA See also:POLYNESIA (q.v.)
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and See also:Chinese," may be said to converge
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Careful investigations have supported the theory that See also:Micronesia was peopled largely from the Philippines or some portion of the See also:Malay See also:Archipelago at a much later See also:period than the Polynesian See also:migration
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The Micronesians then are probably of Malay stock much modified by See also:early Polynesian crossings, and probably, within historic times, by Papuan and even See also:Japanese and Chinese migrations
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While their See also:general physique approximates to the Polynesian type, they are often characterized by a stunted See also:form and a dark complexion
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In this See also:review of the inhabitants of the Pacific islands an imaginary ethnological See also:line has been See also:drawn See also:round it so as to include none but the branches of the two See also:great divisions
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But on the See also:borders of the region, often without real boundary lines, are grouped other peoples, the true See also:Malays, the Indonesians or pre-Malays with the See also:Negritos to the westward and the Australians, who are generally admitted to be a distinct See also:race
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Of these races detailed See also:information will be found under their several headings
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Prehistoric Remains.—One of the most obscure questions with which the ethnologist has to See also:deal is that of the prehistoric remains which occur in different and widely separated parts of the oceanic region
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The most remarkable of these are on See also:Easter See also:Island, where immense platforms built of dressed See also:
In some of the See also:Caroline Islands, again, there are extensive remains of stone buildings, and in the See also:Marianas stone monuments occur
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No native traditions assign origin to these remains, nor has any See also:complete explanation of their existence been offered
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See also:Turner, Nineteen Years in See also:Polynesia (See also:London, 1861) ; T
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See also:West, Ten Years in See also:South Central Polynesia (London, 1865) ; J
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Brenchley, Cruise of the " Curacoa " among the South Sea Islands during 1865 (London, 1873) ; W
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See also:Coote, Western Pacific Islands (London, 1883) ;
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See also:Romilly, The Western Pacific and New See also:Guinea (London, 1887) ; H
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Stonehewer See also:
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Wawa, The South Sea Islanders and the See also:Queensland Labour See also:Trade (1889) ; G
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Haurigot, See also:Les Etablissements See also:francais en See also:Oceania (See also:Paris, 1891); B
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See also:Powell, In See also:Savage Isles and Settled Lands (London, 1892) ; " Sundowner," Rambles in Polynesia (London, 1897) ; M
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See also:Shoe-maker, Islands of the See also:Southern Seas (New See also:York, 1898) ; See also:Joachim See also:Graf Pfeil, Studien . aus der Siidsee (See also:Brunswick, 1899); See also:Robert See also: Kramer, See also:Hawaii, Ostmikronesien, and See also:Samoa (See also:Stuttgart, 1906) ; J . D . See also:Rogers, See also:Australasia, vol. vi. of the See also:Historical See also:Geography of the See also:British Colonies, edited by See also:Sir C . P . See also:Lucas (See also:Oxford, 1907) ; T . A . See also:Coghlan, Statistical See also:Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia (See also:Sydney) . With especial reference to the natives and their See also:languages see Sir G . See also:Grey, Polynesian See also:Mythology (London, 1855) ; W . Gill, Myths and Songs of the South Pacific (London, 1876) ; J . D . See also:Lang, Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation (Sydney, 1877); A .
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See also:Reeves, See also: B . Guppy, Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific, 1896-1899 (London, 1903 seq.) . |
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