ANCIENT POLYNESIA.
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. Press Auoctation.-ElectricTiileßrapn.-Copyrisht. Stdsrt, April 27. Mr. F. W. Christian, who, 18 months ago, under the auspices of the Polynesian Society of New Zealand, left to explore the ruin* of the Caroline and other islands of the Pacific, has returned to Sydney. At all the places he visited he found extensive traces of Chinese and Japanese works, and was successful in securing many ethnological specimens, comprising numerous weapons and tools. As a result of explorations he is satisfied that in the past an extensive trade was carried on through the islands between China and Central America. He claims to have established a chain of evidence pointing to the existence of an old civilisation that will explain the anoient civilisation in Central America. Extensive enquiries were made as to the traditions of the islanders, and many discoveries were made concerning the early history of the | Malaya with regard to migration, all proving that the Torres Straits route to the Pacific was not taken, but that voyages i were made to many of the Caroline Islands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10428, 28 April 1897, Page 5
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