454 THE RACES OF MAN [chap. xl. 



had, in all probability, an Asiatic rather than a Poly- 

 nesian origin. 



Now, turning to th6 eastern parts of the Archipelago, I 

 find, by comparing ray own observations with those of the 

 most trustworthy travellers and missionaries, that a race 

 identical in all its chief features with the Papuan, is found 

 in all the islands as far east as the Fijis ; beyond this the 

 brown Polynesian race, or some intermediate type, is 

 spread everywhere over the Pacific. The descriptions of 

 these latter often agree exactly with the characters of the 

 brown indigenes of Gilolo and Ceram. 



It is to be especially remarked that the brown and 

 the black Polynesian races closely resemble each other. 

 Their features are almost identical, so that portraits of a 

 New Zealander or Otaheitan will often serve accurately 

 to represent a Papuan or Timorese, the darker colour and 

 more frizzly hair of the latter being the only differences. 

 They are both tall races. They agree in their love of art 

 and the style of their decorations. They are energetic, 

 demonstrative, joyous, and laughter-loving, and in all these 

 particulars they differ widely from the Malay. 



I believe, therefore, that the numerous intermediate 

 forms that occur among the countless islands of the 

 Pacific, are not merely the result of a mixture of these 

 races, but are, to some extent, truly intermediate or transi- 

 tional; and that the brown and the black, the Papuan, 



