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THE occasional prevalence of westerly winds and of currents setting east in the intertropical portion of the Pacific, has such an important bearing on the possible eastward migrations of the Polynesians that I think the following, which I take from the Samoa Times for April 20, is worth recording in NATURE.
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WHITMEE, S. Winds and Currents in the Pacific. Nature 18, 617 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018617b0
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