this present age, oppressed and supplanted by more civilized , and 
more gifted nations. 
The second race , of a lighter complexion , in all the various 
shades of brown , of an admirably regular make , ranks much 
higher. A characteristic feature in them is their partiality for the 
sea. They are chiefly distributed over the islands extending from 
the Pelew group in the West as far as Easter Island East. Among 
their numerous places of abode there are only fwo territories of a 
somewhat more extensive area, the Sandwich Islands to the North 
and New Zealand in the South. They are nearest akin to the 
Aborigines of Australia, man and woman, from Murray -River (Colony of Victoria). 
numerous Malay tribes inhabiting the peninsula of Malacca , Borneo, 
Celebes , the Sunda Isles , the Moluccas and the Philippines , and 
are generally designated as the Malay Polynesian race. But this 
race has been again subdivided into Mikronesians and Polvne- 
sians proper. The former comprise the western portion of that 
range of islands from the Kiugsmill group to the Pelew Islands; 
the Polynesians the eastern half from the Samoa and Tonga Islands 
as far as Easter Island, together with the Sandwich Islands and 
New Zealand. The former have a complexion somewhat darker 
than the latter; their several tribes speak different languages; and in 
