_Physical conformation of the natives._--Stature average, hair black, beard scanty, only in some cases thick, forehead narrow, _eyes oblique_, nose somewhat flattened, face broad, complexion clear yellow (citron), lightest in the case of the chiefs.--_Lesson._
As the succession of islands now becomes less regular, and as the interval of sea between Ualan and the Archipelagoes east of it is considerable, it is necessary to consider the lines of passage between the proper Carolines and the Ralik and Radak chains to the north-west. These are two.
1. From Pounipet to the Isles of Brown; with Providence Isles half-way between.
2. From Ualan to the Radak chain, or Mulgrave's Islands.
The direction is now south, and south-west, to an Archipelago lying under the Equator.
KINGSMILL'S GROUP. GILBERT ISLANDS. SCARBOROUGH ISLANDS.
_Latitude._--North and south of the Equator.
_Longitude._--Nearly that of the Fiji islands.
_Population._--Perhaps sixty thousand. In Drummond's Island six thousand.
_Physical appearance._--Complexion dark copper. More Protonesian than Polynesian. Cheek-bones projecting, nose slightly aquiline. Average height five feet eight inches.
In Pitt Island, the most northern of the group, the natives are lighter in colour than the other islanders, taller, stronger, and better-limbed; with smooth bodies, oval faces, and regular and delicate features.
THE PROPER POLYNESIAN BRANCH OF THE POLYNESIAN STOCK.
_Area._--The Navigators, Society, Friendly, and other groups of the Pacific. The Marquesas; the Dangerous Archipelago; Easter Island; the Sandwich Isles; New Zealand, &c. With the exception of the Sandwich Isles and New Zealand, south and east of Micronesia. Nearer to Kelænonesia than to any part of Protonesia.
_Physical conformation._--Maximum and, perhaps, average stature higher than in Micronesia. Aquiline nose commoner. Varieties both of hair and complexion. The former wavy and curled as well as straight; sometimes chestnut-coloured. Skin, often fairest in the parts nearest the Equator; becoming darker as the distance increases. Oftener, also, darker in the coralline than in the volcanic islands.
Zygomatic development moderate. Occipito-frontal profiles truncated behind, elevated at the vertex.