. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 480 AUSTRALASIA. governments have been constituted, and in Gambier a Catholic missionary attempted to transform the island of Mangareva into a vast monastery. On the other hand the English Protestants in the Cook Islands and for a time even in Tahiti deprived non-communicants of all civil and political rights, and regulated social customs, attitudes, salutations, and the whole conduct of the natives. In their institutions, myths, religious rites, and many other respects the Poly- nesians betray diverse affinities to all their western neighbours, P
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 480 AUSTRALASIA. governments have been constituted, and in Gambier a Catholic missionary attempted to transform the island of Mangareva into a vast monastery. On the other hand the English Protestants in the Cook Islands and for a time even in Tahiti deprived non-communicants of all civil and political rights, and regulated social customs, attitudes, salutations, and the whole conduct of the natives. In their institutions, myths, religious rites, and many other respects the Poly- nesians betray diverse affinities to all their western neighbours, Papuans, Indo- nesians, Malays, and even Japanese. They also present numerous analogies with the natives of North and South America, and more especially with the Araucanians of ChiH. It seems therefore possible that the Americans have had their share in Fig. 212.—Inhabitants of Oceania. Scale 1 : 150,000, 100° Meridian oF Greenvvich ^ Malays, Indonesians. .Australians. British. Papuans. Micronesians. Polj'nesians. .N .E. .B. .M .H Negritoes. Burn. Baura. Maori. Havaiki. ___--_.^—^^^ 1,800 Miles. the interminglings that have taken place throughout the eastern archipelagoes, the more so that the normal winds and currents set in the direction from east to west. Recent historical facts show that migrations from the mainland to the islands and from one archipelago to another may often take place under certain favourable conditions. Thus in 1832 a Japanese junk with nine fishermen drifted for ten months with the winds and currents, finally landing at Oahu in Hawaii. About the same time another Japanese bark was stranded on the American coast, and similar unwilling voyages have frequently been made between the Philippine, Caroline, and Marshall groups. The Tahitians and seafarers returning from the Low Archipelago also speak of numerous migrations made even in the contrary direction to the normal winds. Similar cases are attested by the unanimous tradi-. Please note that thes
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