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Malayo-Polynesian Races Ajvd LanguagesThe alayo-Polynesians are the light-complex- ioned, olive-/reference/American-Cyclopaedia-3/Colored-And-Ornamented-Glass.htmlcolored, and straight-haired inhabitants of the /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-7/Lobos-Or-Seal-Islands.htmlislands of the Indian and /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-9/Pacific-Ocean.htmlPacific oceans, from the Andamans in the bay of Bengal in the west to /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-4/Easter-Island.htmlEaster island on the east, and from Formosa and the /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-5/Hawaiian-Islands-Or-Sandwich-Islands.htmlHawaiian islands in the north to /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-9/New-Zealand.htmlNew Zealand in the south. They occupy also the /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-7/Malay-Peninsula.htmlMalay peninsula on the Asiatic continent, and partly also the island of /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-7/Madagascar.htmlMadagascar adjacent to the African coast. Ethno-logically and linguistically they form two great divisions, Malayans proper and Polynesians. The former chiefly occupy the /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-1/Azores-Or-Western-Islands.htmlwestern islands, and the latter the groups E. of the Philippines and Booro, subdivided into /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-8/Micronesia-And-Melanesia.htmlMicronesia, Melanesia, and /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-14/Poison-Ivy-Or-Poison-Oak-Polynesia.htmlPolynesia (in the narrower sense). The original inhabitants of all thi islands were the Papuans, a dark race, with woolly hair growing in tufts. (See /reference/American-Cyclopaedia-9/Papuan-Race-And-Languages.htmlPapuan Races and Languages.) The Malayo-Polynesians came from the 8. E. of Asia, occupied at first only the islands adjacent to it, and gradually extended their territory to the east, either extirpating the previous inhabitants, or driving them into the interior of the inlands and taking possession of the coasts.Their relation to the Papuan population of these islands therefore is similar