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and whether or not they were originally
[words crossed out] so ignorant & uncivilized as they
are now? I regret that to all these
questions [words crossed out] no satisfactory answers can
be [words crossed out] given. We can
only throw out conjectures & hint at pos-
sibilities & probabilities concerning
their original descent, as they are utterly
without a history of their own with
scarcely a [words crossed out] any fragments of tradition and
in as much as all ancient history is
silent about this part of the globe.
How all the Polynesian islands have been
peopled, how long they have been inhabited
and whence they originally came will probably
always remain [words crossed out] doubtful and problematical.
But there is a chain of [word crossed out] islands [word crossed out]
some smaller some greater [words crossed out] connecting
this continent with Asia such as New Guinea,
Borneo [words crossed out] 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 driven
from necessity, when hunted by other tribes

(Margin)

The Celebes
The Phillipines
or nearer
still &
in straiter
line the
Island of
Timor Java
Sumatra the Malay

and 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, crossed out] no satisfactory answers can

be [said of a satisfactory kind, crossed out] 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