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tive conclusion being confirmed by the study of their ethnographical 

 as well as their physical characteristics. But we cannot believe that 

 racial intermixture has taken place in the East and West Caroline 

 Islands to the same degree, for, from what we saw, they are dif- 

 ferent both etlmographically and somatologically. The West Caro- 

 lines are situated nearer to the Philippine Islands and New Guinea 

 than the East Carolines, and the natives of the former seem to 

 possess more racial characteristics in comnaon with, the natives of 

 the Philippines and New Guinea than the East Caroline Islanders. 

 This is true not only ethnographically but somatologically as 

 well, inasmuch as not a few natives in Yap and Palau are frizzy 

 haired and brachycephalic. Etlmographically, Polynesian or Mela- 

 nesian elements are in evidence in the East Caroline group, but 

 not so prominently as is the case in the Western group mentioned 

 above. Of the physical characteristics of the East Caroline Islanders, 

 the same observation may be made. In short, the natives of 

 Micronesia are an intermixture of various neighbouring tribes, and 

 should now be regarded, in the writer's opinion, as constituting a 

 distinct race, tlie Micronesian, rather than a group belonging to 

 another race. 



