336 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Our Melanesian material is so scanty and so widely separated, in form 

 and in sense so uncertain, that we include Aneityum and Motu without 

 argument, but solely on the score of resemblance. 



In Indonesia, on the contrary, we find in Malay and in Java the most 

 satisfactory identifications, and Malagasy quite probable. 



The Semitic pis and Polynesian fls are distinctly coordinated through 

 Malay pis. They may therefore be accepted as at least resemblances. 



bulu-ti, to plaster, to overspread with some sticky substance (as oil, lime, 

 paint, pitch), to cover with a plaster or poultice (as a wound) ; 

 nabulu, a plaster; bubulu, bulubulut, buloki, mabulu, to be 

 sticky (as a plaster). 



Samoa : pulu, gum, breadfruit gum, glue, coconut husk, resin ; puluti, 

 to glue, to pitch ; pupulu, to apply gum, to interpose, to mediate 

 (cf . puluvanga) ; pulupulu, a large cloth about the whole body ; 

 pulupuluta'i, to cover up so as to take care of. Tonga : bulu, 

 a gum used in calking canoes, coconut husk ; buluji, birdlime, 

 paste, plaster, to paste; bulubulu, a shawl, a cloak, to cover the 

 back and shoulders ; bubulu, slimy, adhesive. Futuna : pulu, 

 coconut husk, gum, resin, pitch, all sticky stuff; puluti, to 

 cement, to plaster, to pitch; pupulu, pitch; pulupulu, cloak, 

 wrapper. Niue: pulu, coconut husk, fiber, sennit. Uvea: 

 pulu, pitch. Hawaii: pupulu, adhesive, soft; pulu, scales 



from fern fronds used as plugging or stuffing material. Maori : 

 puru, a plug, a cork, to plug up, to stuff up, to calk. Tahiti : 

 puru, coconut husk. Rarotonga: puru, coconut fiber used 

 as a plug for calking, anything used to calk with. Mangareva : 

 puru, coconut husk, the almond of the pandanus. Rapanui : 

 puru, a covering, to cover. Marquesas: puu, a band of tow 

 made of coconut fiber. 



Viti : mbulu, an external application, a thing that covers or buries, 

 coconut husk; mbuluta, to cover with earth, to bury, to repair 

 an injury, to apply an external remedy; bulubulu, a grave, 

 that which covers or buries, a peace offering. Rotuma : pul, 

 gum ; pulpul, gummy. 



New Britain: pulpul, a cloth wrapped round the body. Mota: 

 pul, pulu, gum, to stick ; pulut, to stick together ; gapulut, glue, 

 paint. Pala: bulitt, to smear. Merlav: mbulut, to make to 

 stick ; gambulut, glue. Norbarbar : -vambulmbul, to make to stick. 

 Malekula : burji, to plaster; buruj, sticky. Malo : bulla, to stick. 



Java: pulut, gum, birdlime. Malay: pulur, the pith of plants, 

 farina. 



Hebrew: kapar, to cover, to cover over; koper, pitch. Arabic: 

 "afara, to cover over, to pardon (sin). 



The Efate words are all in satisfactory accord with one or other of 

 several stems which in Polynesia interlace within the abraded form pulu. 

 These we shall examine with the aid of the Proto-Samoan stem where that 

 is discoverable. 



