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The failure of the Polynesians to use the juice of the palm for toddy 

 and other purposes indicates the improbability of a migration from 

 Asia, while the Polynesian method of making fermented drinks from 

 masticated roots agrees with the custom of the natives of tropical 

 America. 



The agreement and distribution of the Polynesian, Melanesian, 

 Malayan, and other Oriental names for the cocoanut indicate a west- 

 ward migration for the race which introduced it in the western Pacific. 



The ethnological facts which have been thought to prove an Asiatic 

 origin for the Polynesians can be accommodated by the supposition of 

 a westward migration of a primitive culture race to the Malay archi- 

 pelago and the Asiatic continent. 



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