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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 June 1939Vol. IX, No. 11

The Mystery Is

p. 36 · Read in the full issue

Solved!

Polynesians Came from the Ten Lost Tribes

rpHE paleontologist who can re-create A the image of some primeval mon ster on the foundation of a fossil tooth discovered in the depths of a chalk Pit, astonishes us no more than does the ethnologist whose great oaks grow from very small acorns, For instance, the ancestry of the Polynesian has been chevvied about from continent to continent, on the smallest possible evidence. Because of a word of two letters the ancestral land has been fixed in Egypt; because of a potato, in South America; because of a theory, at the bottom of the sea.

We have read a learned book which proves beyond all doubt that the South Sea islander is the blood brother of the builders of Stonehenge. The author traces the migration across the steppes of Asia, through the Caroline Islands to Tonga, as the gateway to Central Poly nesia. Later, this same scholar had a vision and wrote a new book to prove that the ancestral bones of Polynesia rest in the bosom of a lost continent deep down under the water of the Pa cific Ocean!

Lately, it has come to our knowledge that the final solution of the Polynesian mystery has been achieved—not as a con sequence of research by a college of sci entists, but by direct revelation from on high to a latter day prophet. In the days of that ancient Hitler, Haman, the son of Hammadatha the Agagite, the persecuted Hebrews packed their belong ings aboard a fleet of ships; fled down the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf; thence to the Indian Ocean, and turned the prows of their vessels toward the rising sun. In due time they arrived in Polynesia and the inhabitants of to-day are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes.

The followers of the prophet in the Tuamotus say the question is settled for all time, and the anthropologists and ethnologists can now go home and seek

other worlds to conquer.-

A.C.R.