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There should be a limit to the confidence with which we are to follow 

 our author. Our limit is reached at this word "suffice." For it is thus 

 that Dr. Macdonald proceeds: "to meet, i. e., to suffice, be sufficient for, as 

 nafinanga i lasingita, the ford is sufficient for (meets) us and you, tilasi, id., 

 also to meet, come upon, come across (a person) i tilasinauii nabua, he met 

 us — them on the way." 



So far as las, last, means great the Polynesian identification is perfect. 



The Indonesian suggestions are derived from Turner; they are presented 

 as resemblances; there seems no other relation. 



soko, masoko, true, exact, to the point. 



Samoa: sa'o, sdsa'o, correct, right. Futuna: sako, right, correct. 



Tonga: sao, pleasing, agreeing with what is right and just. 



Niue: hako, straight; hakohako, perfect, upright, just. 

 Malay: sung"nh, true. 

 Arabic: sadaka, sadk', true. Hebrew: sadak, to be straight, right, 



just. 



The extinction in Tongan of Proto-Samoan k is so unusual as to cause 

 the thought that perhaps Tonga sao is really Samoa sao perfect, without 

 fault or blemish, and not properly to be identified with sako. 



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sulu, a torch; sulu e, to scorch with the flame, to illuminate with a torch. 



Samoa: sulu, a torch; to light by a torch; sulusulu, to carry a 

 torch; susulu, to shine (used of the heavenly bodies and of 

 fire). Futuna: susulu, the brightness of the moon. Tonga: 

 huluaki, huluia, huluhulu, to light, to enlighten; fakahuhulu, 

 to shine; tuhulu, a torch or flambeau, to light with a torch. 

 Niue : hulu , a torch ; huhulu, to shine (as the moon) . Maori : 

 hum, the glow of the sun before rising, the glow of fire. 



Baki: yulu, a torch. Motu: hururu, id. 



Java : stduh, a torch. 



Arabic: s'a'ala, to light, kindle a fire, torch; s'u'ulu, flame of fire; 

 mas' i aV, torch. 



The Efate gives us the torch sense ; this runs through Samoa, Tonga, Niue, 

 Baki, Motu, Java. In Polynesia we encounter the sense of shining, which 

 may be taken to mean that the torch is the shining thing. The abstract 

 sense is found with the torch name conjointly in Samoa, Tonga and Niue, 

 and exclusive of the torch in Futuna and Maori. The Samoan susulu, which 

 expressly points out that fire and the heavenly bodies shine in the same 

 word, is the link which joins the two significations, and the Maori would be 

 exactly as valid if it but included a sulu torch. The celestial shining in 

 Samoa and Tonga is general, in Niue and Futuna is moonshine, in Maori is 

 the sun in the dawn glow. Of the Paumotu huru color, height, figure, 

 shape, only the first sense can be in the least referable to sulu to shine, and 

 then only to dismiss it. 



The Motu identification will pass muster. If the Baki is to stand it 

 introduces a new mutation, s-y, one which rests upon this single instance ; 



