Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-31
ORIGIN OF THE POLYNESIANS.

| TFor the "Deseret News" by Charles
| Hardy, of Helensville, near Auckland,
! New zealandl
The Polynesians or Oceaulans are
mixed race of islanders, having sub
stantially the same superstltions. man
ners. customs and arts. and speaking
languages derived from one stock. Not
to speak OF the admixture with the
oeeanians. especially in Java, of Hin
docs, Dravidians Mongois, Mahom-
medan Arabs and Europeans. there
is an universal and far more ancient
African negro element which must
have been absorbed into the Polyne-
sian race not only before any of the
others named, but before Its migration
into the island world took place. The
region inhabited by this race extends
from Madagascar in the western part
of Indian Ocean near Africa to Easter
Island in the Eastern Paddle not very
far from America; from Dew Zealand
In the South to the Sandwich Islands
in the North Pacific; AID from the
New Hebrides to New G3lnea. In the
last named part the negro element pre-
walls more largely than in any other.
and it has received the name of Me-
lanesla, the people being variously
called Papuans chat is. fri2zy haired)
Negrillos, Negritos, and Oriental or
Oceanic, or Polyneslan negroes
The original religion OF an the rory
ensian races included the belief in a
future state, in which great reverence
was pald TO the'r ahceslpiS' ihVS "'''
exceedingly supersttious and they
practlsed sorrery. Their system of gov
''N ,..,.., r-,,,,, wore
erhheht was pau 0He''
polysamists. The practice Oh circuti-
cision was commenced in many parts.
1,a,,,,i,,a,i,,, y,,s nraotIced in many
,ianns TIL, aynressions of grief at a
bd, nath ,Yara ' extreme. wailing loudly,
ueath WeIe ~ ~, tb,mselves'
a MY cultlhs ny anad S,ith ire ut
lhey t.eae1 Ia sacrihrad animals.
nus ,,il,i,,e,,, ht,nnn brinrs. at the
I'M - T,n,i ,,.ar' Very reyengeful and
+,,ii tari'o thair desire Tor ven
Mouiu t p,a' 40 ,SSn,aatneiv long ueriod
seahce ioI an IN. ~ ti i,3sS,,it ,srave in
" 80 ~, ypare noIite and eX-
i'"ll ,.. = -,i;a,,i, towards ench other.
ard a. ,nnincehle enemies. they were
- e,,ts,,i f,ionds
an a,hd r,,nn,,factnra az what has been
ny mtii,ni,os,, c,oth y,,oa universal
Gai, Sl', o.t'''e''e"'
ia M i,,r,r,ooas snolsen Inv the Poly
- ', ,.a,7,, FL hnIony To one family
~ -, "a snriny from, one stock
VI stvtSp ,,,,,e M antiouitv of the
poi,,nes,nn rece must be very great,
Ioiy L.si''i 80 hayond the com
retcnliIs ~ ~ Chris.inn ero The
lile,lIeii M, ~, ha,, hecotnp sn widely
tt.l,.sS ma Tho Ianruapes and dia-
80 co aiveTse and multltudinous in
si,,,t na,ind of time although the
peupt ,i,,.,, recant
pa ganaraI ruIe the nominations
~ a. az ia,,rla are repre-
GU, is,, ,haee Of the nearest con-
,;rant In cnnformance with this
Wada coscar that remarkable, and
i,,',ii,.i,,,s is,,nd oupht 10 have been
ny ~, f,ica vet the Nalagasy
puopi'I n,,,,aca NJ Madagascar
VI ,ti.,,, dirferent from
that 81 the African negroes.
romarLabIe fact that Nada-
-, ,,d nIaiawsia aIthourh 40 wide
saschr anu n"'' ;s,'babited by the same
~ "p 90, L., diaincts Of the same
i 80, IL 10 nrohnbIe that that nor
10 ~ Tho polvnesior, rnce to which
~ hoIon, enigrated at n very re-
mote neriod of time. from the neighbour
n.y. pei ,t,ia hugtrint, ofter the
iIoTu .,,aa,,a,srt ,nnriners on the
ane hand the coast Of Africa as far as
~ IN, ta' ond on the other, the
N'ou' 49, Al, os Tar as AIalavsin
coast VI 80 tha r,afsro element in the
,'i nm, ,..l.s IL seems certain that this
oio,,a.,,,t must have come originally
eIei ,l. s,,na tho oniv native home Of
~, if,rc, Palprove saws that the
.he "sS o,,tbarn Arabia especlally
zhie.' - shyda--black brown. COP
ai i,,, VI 80 niivr and yellow. Louis
81 n"Ii. ~ s,Isa,,inr Of The Arabs, says.
sn ~ ~ ,o,,o h"an met with whose hair
At ,.G,, no a,1 neariv analogous 10 that
70 "ools, ' - mn state If things in
~ nVst 90 ax,nctiv the same There
4 lu'S nj" .h,das ~ cnlor from light
aie a. i'IaciS. and ali kinds ~ hair
uipN ", - straIrbt 10 thnt which
rom WINS aa a,nins,n,,a 10 that ~
Is Mpo.S' W " 80, all, ,bnt me
nesioe II sd q, thinr nTevailed in an
go, ,i,,,ns ana that when in the pre-
Sisnt ~, 80 ~ s:benitas were an
i.ii,,s" ci,,;iigotjnn their negro
pp,a ,,,'i,.a axtrenneIv numerous and
.i,s ,,,,.a Clement in the shenistic
~. ia,s,a u,it as In Arabia SO in
nui., ,a ,ha raca thus mixed is one
e. a i,e' other rasnsct, that ia as to
a. ,',,a..3' rsiision ,yovprnment char
i" 'i.t', "a" O. e., ,,',.s 40 custo,ns In the
sN,'., n, ~ 20 &c az, tbe continent
isiai nus. nv Sc t,,n fnctsS thc dIe'
We nun, ~ 90 No nocro,s ,angua,-e
app ia o,t,to,, of bis ,,n,nTetnR
t,lu W lrlrp,,i' T., ,,,.,.,,,o das,rnss
az oopn;,s., eneas # an1eors certain
" ~ Ioni,,rasiar rnre v,os Tins
.hiit ,hg on ,y, Hie7'' hasaro l., n,i,,,ettd
,lo ~ or is, ,es5 i'i'N'