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FL661348and whether or not they were originally in the same more or less the same so ignorant & uncivilized as they are now, [a?] I regret that to all these questions but little is no satisfactory answers can be said of a satifactory kind given. We can only throw out conjectures and hint at pos- sibilities & probabilities concerning their original descent, as they are utterly without a history of their own with scarcely a few a trace any fragments of tradition and in as much as all ancient history is silent about this part of the globe. How all the Polynesian islans have been peopled, how long they have been inhabited and whence they originally came will [probably?] always remain a difficult [indecipherable] problematical. But there is a chain of these islands New some smaller some greater which connects connecting this continent with Asia such as New Guinea, Borneo and the islands of [Timor?] [on a aticular line still?] is not far from the northern coast of this country and Timor is not a great distance from the Malay [country?] on the [Indian?] archipelago, or the Malay Archi- pelago as it is sometimes called. Whether arrived from necessity, when hounded by other tribes (Margin) The Celebes The Phillipines or nearer Chile & [a?] [aticular?] line the Island of Timor Java Sumatra the Malay | FL661348and whether or not they were originally in the same more or less the same so ignorant & uncivilized as they are now, [a?] I regret that to all these questions but little is no satisfactory answers can be said of a satifactory kind given. We can only throw out conjectures and hint at pos- sibilities & probabilities concerning their original descent, as they are utterly without a history of their own with scarcely a few a trace any fragments of tradition and in as much as all ancient history is silent about this part of the globe. How all the Polynesian islans have been peopled, how long they have been inhabited and whence they originally came will [probably?] always remain a difficult [indecipherable] problematical. But there is a chain of these islands New some smaller some greater which connects connecting this continent with Asia such as New Guinea, Borneo and the islands of [Timor?] [on a aticular line still?] is not far from the northern coast of this country and Timor is not a great distance from the Malay [country?] on the [Indian?] archipelago, or the Malay Archi- pelago as it is sometimes called. Whether arrived from necessity, when hounded by other tribes (Margin) The Celebes The Phillipines or nearer [indecipherable] & [a?] [aticular?] line the Island of Timor Java Sumatra the Malay |