Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 11 | Polynesian Race Came from Asia

POLYNESIAN RACE CAME fR M ASIA Botanist Investigates Evidences Evidences Evidences Evi Evi- dences of Origin nO HONOLULU T. T H. H Jan n 26 The The flora of the Marquesa islands reveal conclusive proof that the Polynesian race came out of ot southeastern southeastern Asia Asla to their present habitations in the Islands of ot the Pacific In the opinion of Forrest Forrest For lor rest Brown Drown Bishop museum botanist v v. v-ho v ho has Just returned from seventeen months of Investigation in the Mar Mar- In connection with the mu museums museum's seum's effort to e establish the origin of the Polynesians Professor Brown expressed the be belIet belief belief be- be lief lIet that a few fe food plants now found In the had been obtained nod from the American continent during some pre European period when that branch of ot the Polynesians which settled settled set set- tied In the Journeyed back backI I and nd forth between their Island homes set I and America The presence In to the of the sweet pot potato and ami the led Professor Brown to the theory that the l visited America as these plants probably had been obtained In semitropical Central America he sal said The food plants most common to the he Ja came howeVer from southeastern southeastern south south- eastern Asia probably by way of Ma Ma- lay Java Java and India These are the he taro taco and the breadfruit He lIe said Bald that the original Polynesians Polynesians clans probably had inhabited the coasts of southeastern Asia Asa and had been forced to seek seele new homes In the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- by the pressure of ot tribes s and clans from the Interior which them literally Into the ocean They took their fOl food 1 plants with them when I 1 they ml migrated rate l. l he said Professor Brown said eald that the natives natives natives na na- na- na tives of oC the l Ia who are governed governed governed gov gov- b by the French are very civil and exhibit exhibit- the same generosity and hospitality hat prevails among other Polynesians He is not ready to express ss an opinIon opinion opinion ion as to the route or routes taken by bythe bythe bythe the Polynesians during their migrations migrations migrations migra migra- which finally landed them In Ha Ha- wail The i solution of this problem will require additional data and further further further fur fur- ther study of the specimens which he brought back