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but that is not particularly remote from the butterfly signification. At 

 least the comparison is worth making. Starting with pepe and ending 

 with ani, these forms show a remarkable process of dilapidation of the 

 Polynesian stem in the custody of Melanesians or worse, yet there is a 

 perfect chain from pepe to ani. The form pepe is found in Mugula,Tube- 

 tube, and Panaieti. The slightly variant pape is found in Dobu, Awalama, 

 Taupota, Wedau, and Kubiri ; and Tavara apape is a modification of the 

 same. The simple, unduplicated stem, pe, is recognizable in mape of 

 Galavi, Boniki, and Mukawa; in mabe of Mugula; and in peapea of Sariba. 

 Recurring to the pape stem we have no difficulty in following it to Oiun 

 baben and Kiviri fafen. At this point we have acquired a final n, which 

 thenceforward dominates the stem. Its simple series runs in this order: 

 Sinaugoro pane, Mekeo pant, Galoma bane, Uni bani, Keapara vane, Pokau 

 vani, Motu hani, Rubi ani. More involved forms are, Misima bpeni, Nada 

 papane, Murua pinpene, Kiriwina pinipanela. 



191. 

 bilikit, to peel. 



Samoa : mele'i, to husk coconuts. 



Viti: longgata, to peel: meleka, to break off a small piece of food. 



Aneityum : milinga, to peel. 



Ethiopic : lahasa, to peel. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is melek. 



We can find this in Samoa, Viti and Aneityum. The Efate m-b mutation 

 we have already been compelled to recognize in umu (76) oven Efate" uba. 

 These two instances are very satisfactory, yet there are no other except that 

 similar m-v mutation in masaki (323) sick Nggela vahagi. The Viti longgata 

 in which our author sees identity is no more than a partial resemblance. 



192. 

 boro, the coconut leaf; a basket made thereof; the leaf plaited for thatch- 

 ing houses. 



Samoa: pola, a plaited coconut leaf used to inclose the sides of a 

 house. Tonga: pola, the nut leaf plaited for thatch and other 

 purposes ; bolobola, a large basket made of the nut leaf. Futuna : 

 pola, plaited coconut leaves. Niue : pola, a coconut-leaf mat. 

 Maori: pora, a kind of mat. Tahiti: farepora, a small, neatly 

 thatched house on a double canoe; haapora, a sort of long 

 basket. Mangareva : pora, a general name formats. Paumotu : 

 kaporapora, a mat. Fotuna: borabora, a coconut leaf basket. 

 Marquesas: poa, coconut leaves. Sikayana: pur a, thatch. 



Viti : mbola, a coconut leaf plaited for thatching, a basket. 



Mota : pora, a basket. New Georgia : poru, a mat. Bougainville : 

 polta, sl mat. Aneityum : naburabura, a coarse basket. 



Arabic: fara', to split, to rend, to slit. 



The identification is perfect in our territory, the only variants from the 

 pola type being Sikayana pur a and Aneityum burabura, in New Georgia 

 poru, and the unaccountable injection of t in Bougainville polta. This, 

 however, may be a syncopation of polata, the pola screens which serve for 

 Venetian blinds about the islander's house. As usual our author : "bworai 



