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THE TWO EACES WHICH PEOPLED POLYNESIA. 
Maori in this respect resembles the European, and rivals 
him in the luxuriance of his beard. 
Most Aborigines have black hair, and that either straight 
or frizzly ; the American has the former ; the natives of 
the Fiji and other isles the latter. In New Zealand the 
straight and black predominate, although some have wavy 
and curly, but almost every kind may be met with, the 
auburn, flaxen, and rich reddish brown. 
The Maori has a name for every kind of hair. The frizzly, 
called maweti; matted hum, straight maliora, red kehu, or 
rarauhe , auburn mdkekehu, slightly curled jpiki, silken ngaore } 
curly huruwati , flaxen rukehu , black pango, grey hina. The 
Korakorako, or Albino, has generally red sandy hair, red 
complexion and red or blue eyes. 
The Malay can scarcely be considered as belonging to the 
Pacific,- their range being chiefly confined to the Indian 
Archipelago. They are not so well built or so tall in 
general as the Polynesian, but more wiry in form, and, 
perhaps, more active in their movements. By many 
they are supposed to have peopled the south seas ; the 
chief reason for this opinion seems to arise from the re- 
semblance which a few of their words bear to those of the 
Polynesian tongue, but there are probably quite as many 
European ones, which are identical with them, as Malayan ; 
and the same reason may be assigned that both have de- 
rived them from a common source, and in fact, the same 
may be said of the western coast of America, both with 
regard to manners and customs as well as words. 
There appears, therefore, to be one grand conclusion 
arrived at on this deeply interesting subject of inquiry, 
which is, that the Pacific has been chiefly peopled by two 
races, the Melanesian and Polynesian, although others have 
conti ibuted to do so in a smaller degree. That the Melane- 
sian was by far the most ancient of the two ; and both 
entered the Pacific from contrary directions ; that whenever 
they came into contact with each other, the lighter coloured 
subdued and dominated over the other. 
The black arrived from the west; they may be clearly 
