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Indian Ocean, into the interior of Madagascar, we 

 shall everywhere meet with people whose hair is 

 straight or wavy, and whose skins exhibit various 

 shades of brown. These are the Polynesians, 

 Micronesians, Indonesians, whom Latham has 

 grouped together under the common title of 

 Amphinesians. 



The cranial characters of these people, as of the 

 Negritos, are less constant than those of their skin 

 and hair. The Maori has a long skull; the Sand- 

 wich Islander a broad skull. Some, like these, 

 have strong brow ridges; others like the Dayaks 

 and many Polynesians, have hardly any nasal in- 

 dentation. It is only in the westernmost parts of 

 their area that the Amphinesian nations know any- 

 thing about bows and arrows as weapons, or are 

 acquainted with the use of metals or with pottery. 

 Everywhere they cultivate the ground, construct 

 houses, and skilfully build and manage outrigger, 

 or double, canoes; while, almost everywhere, they 

 use some kind of fabric for clothing. 



Between Easter Island, or the Sandwich Islands, 

 and any part of the American coast is a much wider 

 interval than that between Tasmania and New 

 Zealand, but the ethnological interval between the 

 American and the Polynesian is less than that be- 

 tween either of the previously named stocks. 



The typical American has straight black hair 

 and dark eyes, his skin exhibiting various shades 

 of reddish or yellowish brown, sometimes inclining 



