EASTER ISLAND 



THE RAPANUI SPEECH AND THE PEOPLING 

 OF SOUTHEAST POLYNESIA 



BY 



WILLIAM CHURCHILL 



Sometime Consul-General of the United States in Samoa and Tonga, 



Member of the Polynesian Society, the Hawaiian Historical 



Society, the American Philological Association 



PUBLISHED BY 



THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 



1912 



