to avoid a suspicion that they are fully the equals of their masters, when we see the refinement and beauty of their

best representatives as shown in the photograph here reproduced (Fig. 81), a type which is very similar to the man figured, with his wife, in Captain Marshall's

Phrenologist among the Todas-a tribe in southern India -under the title "Adam and Eve."

The fact that a complete state of savagery is quite compatible with elevation of type is shown by the Veddahs of Ceylon, believed to be the aborigines of the island and

still living in the dense forests in a completely savage state. They are looked down upon by the other inhabitants as little removed from wild beasts, yet their physical characteristics show them to be a fine race, with all the essential characteristics of the Caucasian type. The reproductions of three very beautiful photographs of these interesting people (Figs. 82, 83, and 84), show them

to be the equals of the Ainos and Todas in perfection of form and features, and to be unmistakably of the same fundamental type as ourselves.

Probable Origin of the Brown Polynesians.

We are now in a position to explain, with some probability, the presence of so high a type (of undoubted Caucasian affinities) in the Pacific, from the Carolines to Easter Island and from Hawaii to New Zealand. At a time when the whole eastern coast of tropical and subtropical Asia was occupied by varieties of this race, which extended also to Japan and to its outlying islands, canoes would be occasionally carried out to sea by tempests, and in this way population would spread farther and farther from the continent. Taking Japan as a probable starting point, owing to the enormous extent of its coast line and its inland seas and straits leading to the development of bold navigators, first the Bonin Islands, then the Ladrones and the Carolines would be thus peopled, since for at least half the year north-westerly winds and gales are prevalent between Japan and the northern tropic. Having once reached thus far, slowly but surely, perhaps after hundreds of years, when these small and unvaried islands became overpopulated, further eastward migration would occur, either by accident or design, to the Marshall group, whence an almost continuous series of groups and islets extends south-eastward through the Gilbert and Ellice Islands to Tonga and Samoa, the first large mountainous and fertile islands in this direction adapted to supply all the conditions for an enjoyable existence. These last formed the centre from which, at a later period when they had become fully peopled, the race spread to the Sandwich Islands and to New Zealand.

This migration from temperate Asia will avoid all the difficulties of the ordinary view of an origin from the Malay Islands, since in them there is no indication of an early occupation by a Caucasian race, while the distances to be traversed are far greater, and there are on the route abundance of islands, thinly inhabited either by people