INTRODUCTION. xiii 



The changes which have taken place among the Papuans 

 since their settlement have probably all been for the worse, 

 for want of circumstances to call for the use of knowledge or 

 of habits originally possessed. The absence of Sanscrit ele- 

 ments in their language proves that their migration must have 

 occurred before Sanscrit influenced the languages of the Indian 

 Archipelago. 



At a later period a second migration took place from the 

 Archipelago, westward across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar. 

 This, we may conclude, was in post-Sanscrit times for there 

 are a few Sanscrit elements in the language of Madagascar. 

 Later still, another migration from the Indian Archipelago 

 went eastward, settling on the north-west islands of Polynesia, 

 commonly known as Micronesia. 



The bulk of these people probably came from the Philip- 

 pines or some other island in the north-eastern portion of the 

 Archipelago. The few Papuan elements which now appear in 

 the Tarapon people may have existed in the original people 

 before they migrated. Since their settlement in the Pacific 

 there has been a considerable infusion of other blood among 

 them probably Chinese and Japanese. 



To make this division of races in the Pacific clear to my 

 readers, I give a list of the principal Archipelagos under the 

 different heads of Papuan, Sawaiori or Mahori, and Tarapon 

 or Micronesian. 



PAPUAN. 



New Ireland. 



New Britain. 



Papua or New Guinea, mixed with Sawaiori. 



Solomon Islands ,, ,, 



Santa Cruz, mixed with Sawaiori. 



New Hebrides ,, ,, 



Loyalty Islands ,, ,, 



New Caledonia ,, ,, 



Fiji Group ,, ,, 



SAWAIORI OR MAHORI. 



New Zealand. 

 Kermadec. 



