Polynesians From Peru?

Papeete, Dec. 20

rIS writer holds the opinion, that should the archaeologist concen trate on the pre-Inca civilisation of Peru, they would learn some surprising things about the islands of South-eastern Polynesia.

The average student of Pacific origins ends by becoming a fanatical advocate of either east or west.

Has it occurred to anyone, that there may have been migrations into Poly nesia, both from the east and west?

The more one studies the subject, the more one is persuaded that the islands of South-eastern Polynesia were inhab ited by a colony of pre-Inca South Amer icans, long before the first Polynesians entered the Pacific from the west.

Not the least of the evidence is the large vocabulary, within the body of the language in this area, of which no trace nor relationship exists in the speech of Samoa, Tonga, Hawaii or Cook Islands.

Then, too, the long isolated far-eastern island, Reao —whose strange people have retained the physical characteristics of a non-Polynesian ancestry; whose mas sive stone platforms and arrangement of stone pillars correspond with those of Easter Island—presents convincing evi dence of migration from the east.

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