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lands can be grouped either with the Malays or the Paupans, 

 and that these two have no traceable affinity to each other. 

 I believe, further, that all the races east of the line I have 

 drawn have more affinity for each other than they have for any 

 of the races west of that line ; that, in fact, the Asiatic races 

 include the Malays, and all have a contmental origin, while 

 the Pacific races, including all to the east of the former (ex- 

 cept perhaps some in the Northern Pacific), are derived, not 

 from any existing continent, but from lands which now exist 

 or have recently existed in the Pacific Ocean. These prelim- 

 inary observations will enable the reader better to apprehend 

 the importance I attach to the details of physical form or 

 moral character which I shall give in describing the inhabitants 

 of many of the islands. 



