CONCLUSIONS, 293 
The failure of the Polynesians to use the juice of the palm for toddy 
and other purposes indicates the improbability of a migration from 
Asia, while the Polynesian method of making fermented drinks from 
masticated roots agrees with the custom of the natives of tropical 
America. 
The agreement and distribution of the Polynesian, Melanesian, 
Malayan, and other Oriental names for the cocoanut indicate a west- 
ward migration for the race which introduced it in the western Pacific. 
The ethnological facts which have been thought to prove an Asiatic 
origin for the Polynesians can be accommodated by the supposition of 
a westward migration of a primitive culture race to the Malay archi- 
pelago and the Asiatic continent. 
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