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in Maori and Tahiti, ka in the Paumotu, ko in Hawaii, te in Mangareva and 

 the Marquesas. That it was brought by this migration from its western 

 home is shown by this uniformity, and it is in use wherever that migra- 

 tion has reached. It is so ancient that no trace of its original significance 

 can now be discovered. 



By combining these two records we find : 



(i) The Proto-Samoans used tuli to mean the visible physical obstruction 

 of the ear, and to convey the sense of deafness they employed a locution 

 signifying waxed-ear. 



(2) The Tongafiti when their migration swarmed had reached a stage 

 in which tuli had lost its primal sense, was altogether used of deafness, and 

 to convey the cerumen meaning a compound was necessary. 



(3) Nuclear Polynesia, being a meeting-ground of the two migrations, 

 shows the record of the earlier overlaid by the later. 



The use in Fotuna of the /w/i-cerumen and tuli-deai is one of the inter- 

 esting pieces of evidence to show that the squadron which settled that verge 

 island had been in the area where the Proto-Samoan and Tongafiti swarms 

 had been in conjunction, and that the period of its voyage must have been 

 subsequent to the coming of the Tongafiti fleets to Nuclear Polynesia. 



238. 

 uta i, uta ki, to load (to make sink, to immerse) a canoe ; uta, a canoe load, 

 a cargo. 

 Samoa: uta, the cargo, the load of a boat, ship or canoe. Tonga: 

 uta, the cargo or freight of a vessel. Uvea: uuta, to fill up. 

 Futuna: uta, cargo, lading. Maori: uta, to put on board a 

 canoe, to freight, to load ; utanga, cargo, lading. Mangareva : 

 uta, to carry by sea to land or by sea to another country ; utanga, 

 a big loading ;'or freight. Marquesas: uta, to carry, to 



transport; utatina, utaia, cargo. Paumotu: utanga, bag- 



gage, burden, freight, the lading of a ship. Rapanui: 

 hakauta, to give passage. Tahiti: utaa, the burden or load of 

 vessel. Hawaii : ukana, baggage on or to be put on a canoe 

 or vessel; hoouka, to freight, to put aboard a canoe. Fotuna: 

 auta, cargo; fakaute, to load. 

 Viti: usana, usa, to convey a cargo; usana, usausa, a cargo. 

 Tanna: (t)auuta, to load; nauuta, cargo, 

 Malagasy: undrana, to load a canoe. 

 Arabic: "ata ("a'tu), to immerse. 

 There is no evidence to show that this is other than an open stem, yet 

 Dr. Macdonald joins it with utu (168), of which the stem is demonstrably 

 utuf, and derives both from a Semitic parent of an Arabic word meaning to 

 immerse. In clinching the identification he so defines this uta as to lose 

 all sight of common sense. The one aim of the Efate stevedore and of 

 the lumpers aboard the greatest cargo tramp that ever steamed away from 

 the Broomielaw is so to stow the lading of his canoe, of their whaleback, 

 as to preclude all risk that he shall "make it to sink or immerse." Does 

 not the man know that in the days when shipmen had the piety that fears 

 the sea all ships' papers, after reciting the cargo, wound up with the prayer, 

 at least the formula, "and so may God send the good ship safe deliverance" ? 



