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Show I WIDE DIVERGENCE IN RACES 'feeple of Paclflo lilanda Furnish Something of Study for the Ethnologist. The pretence of two distinct race of mnn In the I'actfle Islands suggests two periods and sources of Immlgra-tlon. Immlgra-tlon. aay bulletin of the National Oeographlc society. The Papuans and Polynesians appear to show the widest divergences, with the Mlcroncslnns 00 copying the Intermediate ground uud possessing affinities of race, language, nil custom with the other two. The Papuans may be generally said 'to Inhabit New Guinea, the Solomons, New Caledonia and FIJI. They are Irreligious, democratic, quarrelsome, cannibalistic, and hostile to strangera. They paint their bodies rather than wear clothes, cook In earthen pots, m and .their speech consists of a num- I ter of broken dialects. The Polyncsl- A, ana differ widely from the Papuans. ' K They possess ail elaborate religious H system, an established order of he- H redltary chief and well-defined so H clal caste. They are fond of droits. Bj aro friendly to strangers, are good eu- H men and navigators, and. tatoo Instead B of scar their bodies, and seldom prac- B 1 tic cannibalism. They also possess 1 0 common language, understandable B throughout New Zealand, Hawaii, Sa- B imoa, Tahiti and the Paumotu Islands |