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unity of a sub- typical stem of Man ? If there were no 

 such other indications as have already been noticed, by 

 these facts alone we may with confidence appeal to the 

 presence of a considerable portion of Caucasian blood, 

 in the composition of the master race of the Polynesian 

 islands. It is undeniably conspicuous in some of the 

 groups, less so in others, and evident in despite of lin- 

 guistic considerations, which, to say the least, are still 

 not sufficiently mature to admit the generalizing con- 

 clusions of Humboldt. The Maori tongue of New- 

 Zealand is an example, which, while it shows the pre- 

 sence of a Semitic element in the composition, is but 

 feebly tinged with Malay ; perhaps, by reason of the 

 great majority of its component words being the off- 

 spring of Papua dialects, the basis of the population 

 being originally of Eastern Negro derivation, only by 

 degrees amalgamated or destroyed. Whence these two 

 races came, can now be only conjectured from the remi- 

 niscences of the people, that two immigrations originally 

 took place on these islands ; they still name the loca- 

 lities, and assert one to have come from the east and 

 the other from the west. To individuals or families of 

 the earliest Polynesian wanderers, the introduction of 

 at least one system of doctrine, in South America, may 

 be ascribed ; and to another, of Caucaso-Mongolians, a 

 second, which appears to have reached the north-west 

 coast, and finally to have established itself on the pla- 

 teau of Anahuac. These considerations lead us to the 

 ^ew Continent, before the two historical architypical 

 stocks of the Old can be traced out without interruption. 



