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sense of the noun tad is found in Tahiti, and in Samoa where it is distin- 

 guished from the verb by the form tau, and this corresponds to taunt, which 

 nowhere else appears in Polynesia. 



The Malagasy affiliation is suggested by Tregear with the apologetic 

 note cf. It does not seem good, for rice and milk with honey scarcely lend 

 themselves to this cookery. The failure to recognize Polynesian kitchen 

 conditions in regard of rice once mislaid some charity of excellent intention. 

 The Apia hurricane of 1889, in addition to the destruction of two fleets, left 

 the Samoans on the verge of starvation by the uprooting of their planta- 

 tions and the snapping off of the crowns of coconut trees. As soon as their 

 plight became known in Australia the warm-hearted Colonials despatched 

 a cargo of rice to keep the poor islanders alive. Unfortunately the Samoans 

 had neither stoves nor pots, they could not bake rice in a pit oven, and they 

 were as badly off as ever until food supplies better adapted to their con- 

 ditions reached them. 



185. 

 uta na, uta i, to pay for, repay, give in payment for. 



Niue : uta, to pay, to render. Maori : utu, an equivalent, a recom- 

 pense, the price paid, to pay for, to compensate. Marquesas: 

 utu, wages. Tahiti: utua, compensation, reward, wages. 



Hawaii: uku, to pay, to remunerate, wages. 

 Malay: utang, a debt. Tagalog, Visayas: utang, id. 

 Arabic: 'ada', to pay for, repay. 



The Niue identification is a satisfactory showing that the word has made 

 an entrance into Nuclear Polynesia. The utu forms are all in the Tongafiti 

 migration, and that is so much later as to have allowed the word to change, 

 or it may have been a dialectic variant ab initio. These words are in accord 

 among themselves and vary from Efate only in form and that upon the weak 

 point of the unaccented final vowel. They are, therefore, acceptable. 



The Malayan identifications are imperfectly satisfactory. Polynesia has 

 the sense of something that is paid to a person who has the right to 

 receive it; Indonesia has the sense of what a person has to pay out. The 

 distinction is one that would have found Wilkins Micawber, Esq., at his 

 best, to the rest of us a tragedy. Yet in form the Indonesian words agree 

 in a terminal consonant, which is also in Efate utana, if I am correct in thus 

 reading the word. 



EFATE-VITI-MELANESIAX-POLYNESIAN-SEMITIC. 

 186. 

 afa, afafa, ofa, ofaofa, to swim. 



vSamoa, Futuna : opeope, to float. 

 Viti : nawa, to float. 

 Epi: viava, mia, to swim. 



Arabic: 'ama, to float, to swim (said of a man), to go (of a camel), 

 to dispose in sheaves or bundles ; 'amat, a bundle, float or raft 

 for carrying things across water. 



If the following were but an exercise of Dr. Macdonald's reasoning I 

 should have left it in his volume where the curious might find it, yet on 



