Curious Ethnological Link
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Discovered
Micronesian Monthly, dis . cussing the Bishop Museum expedition to Kapingamarangi, >lated southern-most atoll of the irolines (and jumping-off spot for panese attack on New Guinea), ports an interesting link between at Polynesian outlier and the stant Tuamotu Islands (French jeania), One night Dr. Kenneth P. Emory, 10 was studying the language, sard an Islander reciting an icient chant. Dr. Emory recalled at he had heard this same chant the Tuamotu atolls years earlier, id that the people there could not plain its meaning. The Kaping larangi people were able to ex ain the chant —and thus provide key to some obscure words of the lamotu language which has long en a puzzle to scientists.
The Kapingamarangi people form e of those isolated Polynesian mmunities scattered about Micro sia and Melanesia.