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THE TWO EACES WHICH PEOPLED POLYNESIA. 
and calabash, with the seeds of the karaka. The houses he 
built marked how far superior he was to the race supplanted ; 
and yet that race, low as it had sunk, once owned a civili- 
zation equal to his own. 
The Teocalli of America, the Marae of the islands, 
seem to point to Egypt as the spot from whence they were 
derived ; the fact of so many Polynesian words being iden- 
tical with Egyptian ones, as translated from ancient hierogly- 
phics, and that their axes and hoes were the same with those 
of the Maori, both remarkable for their peculiar form, is 
most singular. 
How strange are such resemblances ! Can it be possible that 
those two migratory races, so dissimilar in form and colour, 
both started from the same spot, one branching off to India 
and its isles, thus reaching Australia ; the other, after a long 
interval, by Central Asia, reaching America and Polynesia 
in one direction, and India in another, there overcoming 
the other, and that at last both should again meet in the 
Pacific ! In reality, however, it is no more strange that they 
should do so, than that the Gipsey should find his way from the 
sultry plains of India to the far- distant isles of Britain ; or 
that our own race should have previously done the same, 
and that the white too, like the black and brown sections of 
the human family, should have found their way at three 
different epochs of time to the same southern shores, and 
that there the three grand divisions of men should meet 
together to occupy the same lands and form one people. 
Hoes not this prove that the innate energy of man is equally 
evinced by each ; and that wherever he is found, in whatever 
circumstances he may be placed, he is virtually the same. 
The Christian must take a still higher view, and regard 
all these wanderings of the different sections of the human 
family, as being ordered in infinite wisdom to accomplish 
the grand designs of the Almighty. 
The division of time into weeks is general wherever Chris- 
tianity has reached, and even where it has not. In Egypt, 
Asia in general, India and China, it marks the influence 
of the Mosaic dispensation. The absence of this amongst 
