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of many Polynesians, and thus designates the point at which such 
voyages might end on the American coast: “The Polynesian groups 
‘are everywhere separated from South America by a vast expanse of 
ocean, where rough waves and perpetually adverse winds and currents 
oppose access from the west. In attempting from any part of Poly- 
nesia to reach America, a canoe would naturally and almost neces- 
sarily be conveyed to the northern extreme of California ; and this is 
the precise limit where the second physical race of men makes its » 
appearance. So well understood is this course of navigation, that San 
Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as being 
on the route to Manilla.” 
Dr. Edkins, of Pekin, in “‘China’s Place in Philology,” says: “On 
the American continent, Turanian and Polynesian linguistic prin- 
ciples meet in the various Indian languages.” And elsewhere he 
affirms that “we are warranted by linguistic data in concluding that 
there was a Polynesian immigration from the Ocean, and a Turanian 
immigration by the Aleutan Islands, and by Iceland and Greenland, 
which united to form the population of the American continent.” 
Yet, like many other writers, Dr. Edkins seeks his Polynesians in 
Mexico and Péru, and would relegate the Algonquin origines to a 
Mongolian source. 
Mr. Wallace, in his ‘‘ Malay Archipelago,” thus describes the 
peculiarities of Malay feature and character: “The colour of all these 
varied tribes is a light reddish brown, with more or less of an olive 
tinge, not varying in any important degree over an extent of country 
as large as all Southern Europe. The hair is equally constant, being 
invariably black and straight, and of a rather coarse texture, so that 
any lighter tint, or any wave or cur] in it, is an almost certain proof 
of the admixture of some foreign blood, ‘The face is nearly destitute 
of beard, and limbs are free from hair. The stature is tolerably equal, 
and is always considerably below that of the average European; the 
body is robust, the breast well developed, the feet small, thick and 
short, the hands small and rather delicate. The face is a little broad 
and inclined te be flat; the forehead is rather rounded, the brows 
low, the eyes black and very slightly oblique; the nose is rather 
small, not prominent, but straight and well shaped, the apex a little 
rounded, the nostrils broad and slightly exposed; the cheek bones 
are rather prominent, the mouth large, the lips broad and well cut, 
but not protruding, the chin round and well formed. 
