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this sum is too large ; of the 80 vocables, 24 are found in the earlier and 

 western seats of Polynesian culture, leaving but 56 upon which such an 

 opinion might rest. It is a negligible charge. 



Before the bulk figures of Table 36 can be of service to our inquiry we 

 must subdivide as in the parallel Table 32. 



Table 38. 



The most cursory comparison with the table of the same order for- 

 mulated from the extra- Rapanui component shows the complete diver- 

 sity of the two components. In the former the provincial element has 

 occupied the larger position, in the Paumotu being one and one-third 

 times the element of exterior identification, in Tahiti being practically 

 on an even footing, in Mangareva a little less than equal, only in the 

 Marquesas showing conspicuous inferiority. The general Polynesian 

 and the Proto-Samoan are the flattest possible curves, the former peak- 

 ing in the Paumotu by but a single unit, the peak of the latter of equal 

 height in the Marquesas. The Tongafiti element, however, is sharply 

 featured. In the collation of the Rapanui affiliates we find great differ- 

 ences. The provincial element is far less important ; instead of equal- 

 ing or generally excelling the wider element, it amounts at best to but 

 one-half, one-third, one-quarter, and in Tahiti it sinks to one-fifth. 

 Clearly the Rapanui element differs largely from the extra-Rapanui, 

 and its influence upon its provincial neighbors has been most unevenly 

 exercised. This will best be presented to the eye in a short table in 

 which each language is represented by two figures, the former its pro- 

 vincial percentage, the latter the sum of the three percentages of its 

 exterior identifications. 



Table 39. 



This shows us at once that the diversity holds most distinctly in the 

 former of each of these paired figures, the provincial component. The 

 interpretation is that the migration which populated Rapanui was 

 exterior to the province ; that it contained a normal proportion of the 



