Bodily peculiarities - Racial marks - Colour - Head - Hair - Albinism - Muscular strength - Spiritual Disposition - A race of contradictions - Optimistic critics - Stupidity - Frivolity - Lies and Dissimulation - Comedy of King Finn - Licentiousness - Human sacrifices, cannibalism, and infanticide - Intellectual capacity - Influence of Christianity - Creative power of the Polynesian mind - Invention - Mythology - Cosmogony - Knowledge of geography - Medicine - Reckoning of time - Counting - Music and dancing - Wrestling and boxing - Games of children.

A man of Pelew, and a man of Yap in the Carolines. (Godeffroy Album)
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Physical Qualities And Intellectual Life Of The Polynesians And Micronesians

• Bodily peculiarities - Racial marks
• Spiritual Disposition
• Creative power of the Polynesian mind
• Influence of Christianity
• Mythology
• Cosmogony
• Stock of culture
• Music and dancing

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