668 Transactions. — 'Miscellaneous. 



He goes on to say : " Encouraged by this I tried the cow. 

 I found kaupare, 'to turn in a different direction,' and was struck 

 by its resemblance to (Sans.) go-pala, a herdsman, I looked at 

 kahu, the surface, and found it illustrated by the example, ' kahu 

 te ramii.' At once I recognized the old familiar expression, 

 ' Cow of heaven,' a sentence to be met with in every work con- 

 cerning the Aryans." A little further on he says, (tracmg the 

 natural history of the cow, and its relation to man, in the Maori 

 Dictionary) : "The cow was kahui, in herds ; kahurangi, unset- 

 tled (' sky-cow,' moving about like clouds) ; kakahu, clothes for 

 him (his dress was leather); kauhoa, a litter, ('cow-friend,' so 

 they used cattle to ride on) ; kahupapa, a bridge (a bridge was a 

 'flat cow' on which he crossed streams) ; kauika, it lay in a 

 heap ;" etc. 



But though the Maoris used a Sanskrit name for their cow, 

 they " once knew the bull by a word like the Latin taiims, a bull. 

 Tara, he had courage ; tarahono, he lay in a heap ; [this lying in 

 a heap seems to have been a habit of the Aryan cattle, perhaps 

 peculiar to them] ; tararau, he made a loud noise ; tararaa, he 

 had two points or peaks (horns) ; tarawai, he broke the horizon 

 line [?]; tareha, he was red; tai-u, he ate grass; taruke, they 

 lay dead in numbers;" etc. "But well as they knew him by 

 this name, they knew him best," Mr. Tregear says, " as Latin 

 hos, the bull." [Hence, as Maori po = Latin hos:] " Pohaka, he 

 ripped up ; ponini, was red ; poichiri, he whisked his tail ;" and 

 others. I will only give one other, but that ought not to be 

 omitted, "There is," says Mr, Tregear, "a good test-word 

 here — a word so short that we have no extra letters hiding the 

 roots — the word pna. Poa means ' to allure by bait,' in modern 

 Maori. If, as I believe, po means bull {bos), then we have only 

 a left. In Sanskrit, aj is to go, or drive, represented by Maori a, 

 to urge or drive. If ' urge-bull ' is the old word for enticing, 

 alluring by bait, what hv/.s it? An Aryan word, the Greek ])oa, 

 grass, is the exact word. That was what they coaxed the bull 

 with ; and in after centuries, when they had forgotten grass as 

 pasture, (only knowing it as weecls,) and the animals which fed 

 on it, the old ' bull-coax ' graft-word was kept for ' alluring by 

 bait.' "- 



I will only now mention one or two other animals, and that 

 briefly, though I am sorry to omit any ; for it would well repay 

 the curious to watch whilst, under Mr, Tregear' s guidance, the 

 whole Aryan menagerie tiles out of this ancient, but heretofore 

 unsuspected, Noah's Ark — the ]\Iaori language. 



The tiger is one of the two animals which have perhaps most 

 severely tried Mr, Tregear's method ; but it, too, is subdued and 



• I may remark, in the sotto voce of a note, that, according to Liddell 

 and Scott, tlie Epic form ol 2>oa (poic) had one of those inconvenient " extra 

 Icttors," besides a different termination. 



