CHAPTER XII.

/Races and Peoples of Oceania/ 474

The Stone Age in Oceania--/I/. _Australians_: Uniformity of the Australian race--Language and manners and customs of the Australians--Extinct _Tasmanians_--/II/. _Populations of the Asiatic or Malay Archipelago_: Papuan and Negrito elements in the Archipelago--Indonesians and Malays of Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, etc.--/III/. _Melanesians_: Papuans of New Guinea--Melanesians properly so called of the Salomon and Admiralty Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, etc.--/IV/. _Polynesians_: Polynesians properly so called of Samoa, Tahiti, and Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, etc.--Micronesians of the Caroline and Marianne Islands, etc.--Peopling of the Pacific Islands and of the Indian Ocean.