NEW HEBREDES NATIVES

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13147, 31 August 1914, Page 7

NEW HEBREDES NATIVES

TALL AND SMALL PEOPLE,

(Per Cable,—Press Association,—Copyright;

SYDNEY, August "9,

A New Zealand scientist, Professor Maamillan .Brown, has returned from a sojourn in the New Hebrides; where he has beeii studying the ethnology, and the languages of the- natives.

The professor reports that ho has secured much interesting and important) data.- He discovered a mixture of small anil: tall-people, The former are probably aborigines from New Rumen j the others—the tallest people in the world—obviously, belong to the Polynesian race, and-.are: distinctly Caucasian in character. "