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THE POLYNESIAN RACE AND ITS TRADITIONS
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rule, taller, fairer, and better looking. In their happy isle, nature provides for most of their wants with very little aid from themselves: the breadfruit, coconut, and
Women of Tahiti, Polynesian type.
banana grow and produce abundantly—almost spontaneously,—whilst fish is abundant and good. The heat of the sun is tempered by the perpetual shade in which the people live, making them fairer than the average members of the race. The Morioris, on the other hand, lived a hard strenuous life, without any vegetable food
