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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 writes, Dr. Edkins seeks his Polynesians in 

 Mexico and Peru, 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 curl 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 to be flat ; the forehead is father 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 i'ound and well foi-me^i. 



