Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . 512 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ceived a Polynesian stream eitherturned back by reversal from the Micro-nesian archipelago, or else deduced by achange of ethnic character from theMalayo-Chinese stem. The Polynesianline which we are here considering maybe traced through Sumatra and North-ern Borneo, from which the migrationappears to have turned northward intothe Philippine islands, and thence to theeast into Micronesi
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . 512 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ceived a Polynesian stream eitherturned back by reversal from the Micro-nesian archipelago, or else deduced by achange of ethnic character from theMalayo-Chinese stem. The Polynesianline which we are here considering maybe traced through Sumatra and North-ern Borneo, from which the migrationappears to have turned northward intothe Philippine islands, and thence to theeast into Micronesia. Here it is that we begin to consider the. VIEW IN EASTER ISLAND—IMAGESDrawn by E. Meunier. great problem of the original peoplingof the islands of the South Pacific. Ex-cept in Melanesia, all of the greatgroup lying between the coast of Chinaand South America are inhabited bypeople of the Brown race. They aremanifestly allied with the Problem of the peopling of Asiatic Mongoloids and the Dravidians in theirultimate origin and descent. No meth-od more rational, more consistent withthe facts can be devised than to sup-pose their distribution into the greatarchipelago from the smaller group of islands directly east of the group is generally known as theCaroline islands, or Micronesia. Fromthis point the archipelago eastward isexceedingly dispersed through a distanceof more than twenty-five degrees oflongitude. Yet the progress northwardinto the Ladrones could have been easilymade. From the Caroline group eastward tothe Marshall and Gilbert islands was amore extended and difficult voyage. Thence theline contin-
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