Show WIDE divergence IN RAGES RACES footle of ef islands furnish something of a study for the tha ethnologist the presence of two distinct races af f man in the pacific islands suggests suggest two periods and ana sources of immigration says gaya a bulletin of the national geographic society the and appear to show ghow the widest divergences with the micronesians Micronesia ns occupying the intermediate ground and possessing affinities of race langu language ago and Clis custom tont with the other two wo the papuans may be generally said to inhabit new guinea the solomons vow caledonia and FIJI they are democratic quarrelsome cannibalistic and hostile to strangers they paint their bodle bodies rather than wear ear clothes clothe cook in earthen pots and their speech consists of a num berof broken dialects the 1 ans ani differ widely from the papuans Papu ans they possess posse an elaborate religious relle loua system estem in an established order of hereditary redi TedI tary chief and well defined social castes they are fond of dress are friendly to strangers are good set sea suen men and navigators and datoo instead of sear scar their bodies and seldom practice cannibalism they also possess posses a common language understandable throughout now new zealand hawaii samoa tahiti and the islands |