Show WIDE DIVERGENCE IN RACES P People Peep of Pacific Paclo Islands Illand Furnish Something of a Study for th the th Ethnologist The presence of two distinct races of man in the Pacific Islands suggests two periods and sources of Immigration tion says A b bulletin of the National Geographic s society clety The and Polynesians appear to show the widest divergences with the Micronesians occupying occupying oc oo the intermediate ground and possessing affinities of ot race language and anti custom with the other two The Papuans may be gen generally rally said to inhabit New Guinea the Solomons New Caledonia and Fiji They are Inell irreligious democratic quarrelsome cannibalistic and hostile to strangers They Thet paint their bodies rather than wear clothes cook In la earthen p pots ts and V their their- speech consists of a nu number num n. n ber of broken dialects The Polynesians nn asia ans differ dUrer widely from the Papuans They possess possess an elaborate religious system an established order of hereditary hereditary he he- chiefs and well-defined well social social so so- cial castes They are fond of dress are friendly to strangers are good seamen seamen seamen sea sea- men and navigators and Instead of scar their bodies and seldom practice practice practice tice cannibalism They also possess a common language understandable throughout New Zealand Hawaii Bamoa Samoa Sa Ba- moa moat Tahiti and the Islands |