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superior to the black race ; and while the black men will have 
brown wives, where the two races come into contact, whenever 
they can get them, I think a Sawaiori man would hardly have 
a Papuan wife, unless he could not get one of his own race. 
The Sawaioris occupy all the eastern islands in Polynesia 
from the Ellice group to Easter Island. There are also colo- 
nies of them found among the Papuans in the western area in 
the Loyalty Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Solomon 
group ; and we now know that many of the inhabitants of 
the eastern portion of New Guinea resemble the Sawaiori 
people of Polynesia so much that they will most likely have 
to be classified with them. It is, however, probable that 
those on New Guinea are somewhat mixed. In the map I 
have indicated by pink bands in the Papuan area the relative 
proportion of Sawaiori mixture amongst the black race. 
III. The TAUAroN Pace, or Micronesians. 
In the western portion of Polynesia, north of tho equator, 
there is a wide belt of low atolls or lagoon islands, usually known 
as Micronesia. Nearly all these atolls are peopled by a brown 
race of men in colour resembling tho Sawaioris, but of smaller 
stature and less robust than they are. They have straight black 
hair, generally more lank than the hair of the Sawaiori people. 
These Tarapons, however, differ more among one another than 
the Sawaioris do. The natives of the Caroline Islands are, as far 
as I have seen them, much larger than those of tho Gilbert 
group. They are also yellower in colour — more yellow than 
the Sawaioris, while the Gilbert Islanders are darker than the 
latter people. 
I think there can bo little doubt but these Tarapons are a 
people who are considerably mixed, and hence the differences 
which characterize them. In many respects they resemble the 
brown people of the Malay archipelago more nearly than they 
do the Sawaiori race. In fact, I think the bulk of the Tarapon 
people are the descendants of people who, in comparatively 
recent times, migrated from some portion of the Indian Archi- 
pelago ; and that, since they have been living in those north- 
western islands of Polynesia, they have become mixed with 
people of other races. Owing to this mixture, I always feel a 
difficulty in giving a general description which will apply to 
all the people in this region. The natives of the Carolines are, 
as I have already said, lighter than most of the others, and 
they differ in other respects, being larger than the Gilbert 
islanders, and less savage and warlike. 
