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of the other gentlemen of the sea. The first bonito caught in a new canoe 

 he calls (ola) life ; the first bonito caught in any season bears a special name 

 (ngatongia), of uncertain signification, and he presents it to his chief. His 

 catch he reckons by a special notation ; to his numerals he adds the word 

 (tino) body; he counts them as one-body, two-body, three-body. Parts of 

 the gentleman have specific names of their own; his fins (asa) and his 

 entrails (fe'afe'a) are called in terms nowhere else employed; the tidbit of 

 the belly part, which the fisher must give to his chief, is called (ma'alo) by 

 the honorific title of the chief's abdomen. And if the rites were not duly 

 observed, if the hook was not rightly tied, if the fisher was so incautious 

 as to mention his eyes, if one of a hundred faults was committed and the 

 fishing was in vain, then the fisher acknowledged his ill success abjectly by 

 saying that (malod) he was conquered. 



Such is the language Samoans use to the gentleman of the seas, and he 

 is not i'a. 



301. 

 kasu, kas, kau, tree, wood. 



Samoa: la'au, a tree, a plant, wood, timber; 'au'auli, 'auali'i, names 

 of trees. Futuna : ladkau, a tree, plant, wood ; kauasi, sandal- 

 wood. Niue : lakau, a shrub, a tree, wood; akau, a tree, wood, 

 timber; kauhuhu, the name of a shrub. Fakaafo, Manahiki: 

 lakau, a tree. Nuguria: lakau, rakau, id. Hawaii: laau, 

 a tree, wood, timber. Maori: rakau, id; kauere, kauka, kauri, 

 names of trees. Rarotonga, Tongarewa, Fotuna, Mangareva : 

 rakau, a tree. Paumotu : rakau, a tree, a plant. Sikayana : 

 rakau, wood. Nukuoro: rakau, a tree; ururakau, medicine; 

 haiururakau, a doctor. Rapanui: rakau, medicine. Vate: 

 rakau, a tree, a club. Tahiti: raau, a tree, wood, timber. 

 Aniwa: foirakou, a tree; rakao, a club. Tonga, Uvea, Mar- 



quesas: akau, a tree, wood, timber. Moiki: ngakau, tree. 

 Viti: kau, kai, a tree, wood. Rotuma: oi, a tree. 

 Nggao: gazu, a tree. Sesake, Hpi: kau, id. Marina: gau, id. 

 Nguna: nakau, id. Motu: du, a tree, firewood. Aneityum: 

 nelcau-un, a rafter; cat, a tree. Solomon Islands: au, a tree. 

 Omba, Arag, Nggela, Bugotu : gai, id. Murray Island : gair, id. 

 Maewo : geiga, id. Tangoan Santo : tagai, id. Mota : tangae, id. 

 Gog: regai, id. Lakon: rega, id. Lo: raga, id. Bierian: 

 lakai, tree; leke, wood. Malo: wu-cai, tree. Tanna: ni-gi, id. 

 Epi: lakai, yesi, id. Merlav: tankei, id. Volow, Motlav, 

 Norbarbar: tenge, id. Vuras: retenge, id. Mosin: rekenge, id. 

 Pak, Sasar, Alo Teqel: enge, id. Malekula: ni-ge, n-ai, id. 

 Ulawa, Bululaha, Alite: ai, id. Vaturanga, New Georgia: 

 hat, id. Duke of York: diwai, id. 

 Malay, Baju: kayu, tree, wood. Teor: kai, id. Malagasy : hazu, id. 

 Hebrew: 'es, tree, wood; from Hebrew, 'asah, Arabic, 'asa', to be 

 hard, firm. 



The stem kau does not appear independently in any language of Poly- 

 nesia proper. For tree and for timber we have the composite lakau in 

 various stages of transformation. But kau will also be found as an initial 



