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Show SOUTH . SEA TPJBES FROM ASIA Ich. Tlie food plnnts inndt common to the Marquesas came, however, from siiutheiiRirrn Asia, probably by wuy of Malay, Juvn unci India. F'rofcHnnr l!rown said that the original orig-inal Polynesians probably had Inhabited Inhab-ited the coasts of sotilbwiKtcrn Asia and bad boon forced lo seek new homes b. t'io Pacific by the pressure of tribes end clmi from (he Interior, which drove them literally Into Mm ocean. They took their food plants with them when they migrated, he KUtd. Marquesans Are Traced Back to India by Hawaiian Scientist After Investigation. Honolulu. Hawaii. The florn of the M'lrqUPfftm island prove Unit tbe Polynesian Poly-nesian rare m.w -ut "f Kl.eestoni .Kin to Its .re :vnt JnMiatloia m tbe MuniH of tbe Pii-iH". I" tbe opinion jorrebt Urown. bohmlM -f the Bishop museum, who has Just returned re-turned from 17 months of Investigation Investiga-tion In tbe Marquesas In connection with tbe museum's effort to establish tbe origin of tbe Polynesians. The presence In the Marquesas of the sweet potato and the papain b il Professor P.rown to tbe theory that the Marciiesan visited America, as these plants probably had been obtained ob-tained lu m-iul-troplcul Ccntro! Atutr- |