118 



EASTER ISLAND. 



Marquesas three times as strongly as with Tahiti and Mangareva, and 

 its extra- Rapanui content affiliates with Tahiti more than five times as 

 . closely as with the Marquesas and more than seven times as closely as 

 with Mangareva. So far as we are yet justified in judgment upon so 

 much of the material, renewing the note that we have reason to regard 

 this as a very ancient element of the common speech, we see Mangareva 

 conspicuously indicated, in comparison with neighbor archipelagoes of 

 the province, as equally influenced by the migration to Rapanui and 

 by that which failed to reach that ultimate destination. 



The three rearward lines of advancing migration are set forth in the 

 next table: 



Table 19. 



Paumotu. . 

 Mangareva 

 Marquesas . 



Rapanui affiliates. 



Polynesian. 



No. P. ct. 



259 



341 

 340 



69 



9 

 90 



Proto- 

 Satnoan. 



No. P. ct. 



4 

 9 

 23 



50 



68 



82 



Tongafiti. 



No. 



60 

 64 

 65 



P. ct. 



73 



78 



Extra-Rapanui. 



Polynesian. 



No. P. ct. 



98 

 54 



78 165 



38 

 60 

 64 



Proto- 

 Samoan. 



No. P. ct. 



39 

 63 

 82 



>5 



20 



31 



Tongafiti. 



No. P. ct. 



'59 

 >43 

 35 



44 

 42 

 40 



Tahiti introduces to us a new element in a position of some impor- 

 tance. We note here the figures, the comparison may properly be post- 

 poned to the next chapter, since this element will be found threaded 

 through the Marquesas also. This new element is the affinity with 

 Hawaii. It is confined to that subdivision which we designate South- 

 east Polynesia restrictively; Tahiti shows 105 identifications with Hawaii 

 which nowhere else appear, and 23 in common with the Marquesas. 



The relation of the three identifica- 

 tions of earlier source to the mass of Table 20. 

 Tahiti identifications is set forth in 

 Table 20. 



The sum of the ratios in this table 

 varies by but a few points higher than 

 in the similar tables for the Paumotu 

 and Mangareva, and in the column of 

 Rapanui affiliates the difference is equally 

 inconsiderable. In the column of the 

 extra-Rapanui element Tahiti goes a 



little beyond Mangareva in the accretion of the Proto-Samoan contri- 

 bution over the Paumotu, but it is in practical harmony with the 

 Paumotu in the enhancement of the Tongafiti element ; yet on closer 

 examination of the figures a difference is seen. In Mangareva the 

 Proto-Samoan and the Tongafiti contribute equal amounts of the speech 



