XIX POLYNESIANS AND THEIR MIGRATIONS 415 



Zealand, some of the eastern Fijians, the Tongans, Samoans, 

 Tahitians, Marquesans, Hawaiians, and Easter Islanders — 

 constitute the purest and most interesting section of the 

 Caucasic Indonesians. Their claim to belong to this con- 

 nection can no longer be seriously questioned, since, as now 

 firmly established, there have been from the remotest times 

 both a dolicho-and a brachy-section of the Caucasic division. 

 To the former section belong our Eastern Polynesians, who 

 are mostly long-heads with remarkably regular features, 

 often of a distinctly European stamp, and other characters 

 of a pronouncedly Caucasic type." 



Professor Keane goes on to discuss their language, which 

 is not Aryan but Malayo-Polynesian, which had its roots 

 on the Asiatic main-land, whence it spread over the oceanic 

 world in pre-historic times. He thinks they reached their 

 present home through Malaysia, a point which seems to 

 me very doubtful, and which will be referred to again 

 when we have considered the origin of the Australians, 

 and the widely scattered fragments of low-type or barbarous 

 Caucasic peoples in the remote East. 



