WCP5246

[1]¹ [p. 269]

... The Polynesians are of a light brown colour, tall and well proportioned, with regular and often beautiful features, and in some cases are the physical equals of Europeans—or at least this is the case in Samoa and the Marquesas. Although both the brown and the black peoples living here had, in all probability, Asiatic ancestors in common, the Polynesian is to-day as he has ever been, a distinct race. Dr. Wallace, the great authority upon this subject, informed me as his opinion that there must have been "a stream of migration from East tropical Asia, where remnants of Caucasian races still exist, and these, intermixed perhaps with some Malay tribes, produced the fine Mahories of Samoa, the Sandwich Islands, and New Zealand."