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Guam words unlike the Polynesian—Continued. 
USEFUL 
PLANTS 
OF 
GUAM. 
English. Guam. Malaysia. | hilippines. Polynesia. 
ae poo 
Skin. lasas. kulit. dala: (T.). kiri (N.Z.). 
Sleep. maigo. tidor. ' toles (V.). moe, 
Spear. togcha. tombak. tan Tus. tao (N.Z.). 
Spittle. tola, tohula. lure kuha (H.). 
Sun. atdao. mata-hari, | aldao (1.). la. 
Sweet. | mamis, manis. matamis (T.). ono (H.). 
Swim. nango, berenang. langoi (T.). kau (N.Z.). 
Taro. sine. keladi. ' vabi, gabe. talo (S.). 
Great taro. piga. bia. | higa (T.). ape (8.). 
Tomorrow, agupa. esok, biikas (T.). apopo (N.Z.). 
Tongue. hula. liday. dila (T.). alelo (8.). 
Water. | hanom, ayer, danum (P.). vai. 
White. | dpaka ' putih. map iti. tea (N. Z.) 
Woman. | palaoan, perampui i bab: i (T.). fafine (S.) 
Yam, Aang: ubi. ubi. ufi. 
Yesterday, | nigey. kalmarmn. | kahapun. ananafi (S.). 
You (pl.). | hamyo. kamu. kayo (T.). koutou (N.Z.). 
Your. | -miyo. -mu. ninyé (T.). to koutou (N.Z.). 
ORIGIN, 
Of the common origin of the aborigines of Guam with those of Poly- 
nesia, the Philippines, and many of the islands of the Malay Archi- 
pelago there can be no doubt. This is shown especially by their 
language, their arts, social organization, and superstitions, as well as 
by the physical appearance of the natives themselves. It is not prob- 
able that the population was purely Malayan; there is evidence of 
certain affinities with the Melanesians or Papuans. These may have 
been the result of conquest or of the amalgamation of Melanesians 
settling upon the island. Certain customs of the ancient Chamorros 
were very similar to those still existing on some of the islands of 
Melanesia, such as the living together of the bachelors in great houses 
and the prevalence of the custom of concubinage before marriage. 
An affinity with the natives of many of the islands known as Micro- 
nesia is also undoubted, but this is much more remote. Unlike the 
Melanesians and Papuans, the ancient Chamorros were ignorant of the 
manufacture of pottery and of the use of the bow and arrow in war- 
fare, nor did they possess the art of carving in wood. Their canoes 
were without other ornamentation than painted designs of red awd 
black. Unlike the Micronesians, they were ignorant of the art of 
weaving with looms. Their mats were plaited or braided diagonally 
like those of the true Polynesians. In their art of fire making and 
cooking they resembled the latter, and their canoes, provided with out- 
riggers and pointed at both ends, were of the general shape of those 
found in the Eastern Pacific. In their use of slings for fighting they 
resembled the aborigines of many Pacific islands, and their adzes or 
gouges of stone were scarcely to be distinguished from those of many 
Melanesian and Polynesian tribes. 
The elaborate system of forming derivative words from verbal roots 
by the use of prefixes, suffixes, and infixes joined enclitically to the 
