358 JOHN FRASER. 
Next came into Oceania a Negroid-Caucasian race—mixed in 
India—with a fairer skin and narrow nose, and less negroid 
features. These men I assume to have occupied chiefly the coasts 
of the larger islands in Indonesia and eastwards, and many of 
their tribes seem to have come into Australia, mingling with the 
earlier indigenes. Thus I account for the varying physique and 
the varying social institutions of our Australian natives. How 
far eastwards into Oceania this Negroid-Caucasian flood extended 
I do not know, but to them, working in union with the original 
blacks, I ascribe the Cyclopean stone works on Ponape Island and 
Easter Island, and similar, though less noticeable, erections in 
many other islands; for these structures remind one of kindred 
works of stupendous magnitude reared by the black race in India, 
in Babylonia, and in Egypt. 
I think it possible that this mixed race may have been driven 
onwards from India some time later than the Aryan invasion of 
that land. 
Let me add here that in assuming that even the remotest islands 
of the South Seas had black races as their earliest inhabitants, I 
have the support of known facts. The traditions of the Maories 
say that their ancestors, on their arrival in New Zealand, found 
black men in that country; the people of some of the smaller 
groups in Eastern Polynesia are known to be much darker in skin 
and coarser in their nature than the Samoans and Tongans; they - 
have also some differences of religious cult and of social customs; 
in the island of Savai‘i itself (Samoa), a village bears the name of 
‘ Fiji-inland,’ and a dreaded local god is called Fiji; these and 
other facts like them seem to me to indicate the presence of a dark 
race at first in all Polynesia. And when, in course of time, the 
forefathers of the present brown natives arrived—a much fairer 
race—the earlier and darker occupants were either extirpated or 
suppressed and amalgamated, and from their union came the fair 
brown colour which most of the Polynesians now have. But in 
some of the groups where the dark race was strong and the immi- 
grants few in number, the union produced a grosser type of man 
