168 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Of the forms common to Indonesia and Melanesia v-/ is scantily 

 represented in either; v-6 in a solitary Malay instance is rather more 

 common in Melanesia ; x-p, once in Malay, occurs in but two vocables 

 in Melanesia; and v extinct is represented in Melanesia by one 

 vocable in two languages and in Indonesia by the somewhat doubt- 

 ful Malay and Champa identifications of vat, 



F. 



In Polynesia the most common f-mutations are i-h, normal in 

 Hawaii, Mangareva, Maori, and Tongarewa; and f extinct, normal 

 in Bukakuka, Mangaia, and Raro tonga. In Indonesia i-h involves 

 but six vocables in fifteen languages, in Melanesia it is more frequent. 

 The extinction of f in Indonesia is found in four vocables in seven 

 languages, in Melanesia in eight vocables in eight languages. 



i-b is met with but twice in Polynesia; including i-mb, it is rather 

 more common in Melanesia, is frequent in Malay and, with narrower 

 application, quite generally extended over Indonesia. Closely asso- 

 ciated with this is i-p, twice appearing in a single vocable in Poly- 

 nesia, widely extended in several Melanesian instances, frequent in 

 Malay, and of considerable extent in other Indonesian languages, 

 f-i; is normal in Viti ; in all the rest of Polynesia involves but five 

 vocables in eight languages ; is very common in Melanesia ; in Indo- 

 nesia is found several times in Malagasy and rarely in Malaysia, 

 f-w, once met with in two Polynesian languages, is very common 

 in Melanesia ; in Indonesia is found several times in Java and rarely 

 in seven other languages, is is common to Indonesia and Melanesia, 

 but is rare in each, i-ch is peculiar to Indonesia and rests upon a 

 single and satisfactory example, Bouton 259. The f-w mutation 

 (214) is most uncertain. 



P. 



The only mutation common to the three families is p-6. For this 

 Polynesia yields but few examples; including p-mb it is by far the 

 most frequent Melanesian variant; it is frequent in Malay and nar- 

 rowly extends to ten other languages of Indonesia, p-/ appears in 

 but a single Melanesian example; in a single vocable it appears in 

 four languages of the Malay Archipelago and doubtfully once in 

 Malagasy, p-v has a somewhat wide distribution in Melanesia, but 

 is rare in Indonesia, p-w appears once in Gilolo and in the same 

 vocable in the New Hebrides, in another in Buka. The extinction 

 of p involves the same vocable in three Indonesian and one Mela- 

 nesian languages. 



In the Indonesian check-list I have distinguished in bold-faced 

 type the vocables which appear in Malayan tongues with the quality 

 factor of recognizability by the Samoan, of which I have made such 



