4 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Tauu, Nukumanu, Nuguria, Rennel,* and Moiki. Since these islands 

 represent the western limit of Polynesian race and Polynesian speech, 

 we may name them the islands of Polynesia's western verge, or sim- 

 ply and briefly the Polynesian verge. 



In the next class we find small communities on islands with an 

 otherwise Melanesian population, where Polynesian speech is spoken 

 by folk presenting sometimes more and sometimes less of Polynesian 

 race traits. Under this designation come, among others, Mae in 

 the New Hebrides (on the island known as Three Hills) and Fileni 

 in the Swallow Group. To this class of traces of Polynesian origin 

 we shall apply the term the Polynesian inclusions. 



Necessarily the foregoing classes are limited in the number of the 

 instances properly to be assembled under one or the other. The 

 third class is more widely extended than we are yet in a position 

 to estimate. This class is to include all the instances in which we 

 find peoples of Melanesian stock and speaking languages prepon- 

 derantly non-Polynesian, who yet derive some portion of their 

 vocabulary from Polynesian loan material. For convenience we use 

 this term, recognizing that the subject is open to argument. In a 

 diagrammatic scheme of the possibilities it is as antecedently pos- 

 sible also that the Polynesian has borrowed from the Melanesian, 

 or that the common element derives in Melanesian and Polynesian 

 from an earlier undistributed source. Yet I have no hesitation in 

 anticipating the result of the argument and describing this common 

 matter as Polynesian loan material. It is this latter topic which 

 is principally to engage our attention in this work. 



At this point it seems proper to invite attention to the appendix 

 introducing a bibliography of the published matter which has been 

 consulted and which has yielded more or less of assistance in the 

 study of this topic. This will be found on pages 493-506. 



*A word of explanation may not be out of place as to the unequal dealing with the 

 names of the twin islands Rennel and Bellona. These are chart names and secondary 

 in rank to the names in use by the islanders. For Bellona we have the valuable record 

 of Dr. Sidney H. Ray, who has recorded its vocabulary under the name Moi-ki; the 

 hyphen is wrongly placed through a typographical error, as has been pointed out by 

 W. von Biilow; I prefer to standardize the name with other Polynesian forms and there- 

 fore omit the hyphen. The name of Rennel is cited by Wawn and by Thilenius as 

 Muava or Mungava; probably it should be Moava, but as my notes are not positive I 

 hesitate to adopt the form. Thilenius makes the distinct statement that Moiki has no 

 fixed population and is no more than a fishing station for the people of Rennel. This 

 is not in accord with my observation nor with that of Captain Wawn, who has written 

 an interesting narrative of the long search for his home in which he assisted a labor boy 

 who had been carried away to Queensland. The home was found at last in Moiki, which 

 Wawn calls Mungiki. 



