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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15992)	3/26/2007 9:45:36 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 218584

Maurice, You are right about the ethnology of Taiwan, the aborigines there would be related to the Maori racially and linguisitcally, just like the Filipinos. All are Malays speaking Austronesian languages. Of couse there have been vast numbers of Chinese and Japanese and others who have come there over the years, mostly recently. Here is the theory about how the Maoris, Filipinos and the rest came to be: Over 6,000 years ago their ancestors left the Asian mainland, probably from Indochina but it could have been from anywhere and sailed east into the Pacific, probably in boats with outriggers, and carrying dogs, the pig and picking up the breadfruit tree somewhere along the way. They sailed right past the big islands near the Asian mainland, Taiwan, the Philippines and Borneo and continued east, probably because the big islands were already heavily populated with a Melanesian race, related to the Australian aborigines. They continued east, all the way to the tiny islands of the central Pacific, to the Gilberts in Micronesia. Here they flourished and spread to every island there, developing fantastic ship building and navigating abilities and also inventing "ceremonial" trade. By three thousand years ago they had overpopulated the central Pacific, this along with the rise in sea levels. So they "returned" to the west from where they came, they were still arriving in the Philippines less than 1000 years ago. There they killed off and displaced the Melanesians but in the Philippines there are still Melanasian tribes in the highest mountains. The best known of these Filipino Melanesian tribes are the Igorots. In Taiwan the Melanaesians were mostly assimilated by the arriving Malays, but there are clearly Melanesian elements in some of the tribes. They went as far as Madagascar, leaving linguistic and genetic traces, likewise Ceylon and Indochina. There is a Micronesian legend about South America being "the great wall at the end of the world". Them, being a maritime race were stopped dead by this great land mass. For some reason, they were slow to sail north and south in the Pacific. I think the Maori had only been there a few hundred years when the Europeans came and the Hawaiians only slightly longer. Slagle