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behind. Maori: muri, the rear, hind part, afterward. Tahiti: 

 muri, behind, afterward. Rarotonga: muri, behind, in the 

 rear of, after. Mangareva: muri, behind, after. Paumotu: 

 muri, the rear, behind, after. Bukabuka : tainamuri, younger. 

 Fotuna: no-muri, to follow; muri, behind. Aniwa: wamuri, 

 behind, after. Tonga : mui, the tail (of a bird), the end, hind 

 part, to follow. Niue: mui, the last, to follow; muimui, the 

 stern, hind part; muli, to follow. Marquesas: mui, after, behind. 

 Viti: muria, to follow, to go behind. 



Nggela: muri, behind; tumuri, to follow. Motu: murimuri, out- 

 side; muritai, the younger. Duke of York: murimuri, to 

 follow; murumuru, to be behind. Kabakada: muru, back; 

 mule, again, away. Baravon: muru, murmur, the last. New 

 Britain: mulumulu, to follow after. Pala: mur, id. 

 Matu: muli, to return. Pampangas: mulin, the stern. Macassar: 

 kamudi, rudder, helm. Malay: burit, the fundament; buritau, 

 the back, hind part, stern ; kamudi, rudder. Tagalog : huli, the 

 stern. Visayas : uling, id. Malagasy : vudi, the posteriors, stern. 

 Arabic: 'ah'h'ara, to be behind; mouh'ir, stern, hind part; 'eh'ir, 

 end. 

 Efate" muri is in exact accord with the Polynesian muli, muri, mui. The 

 excision of the / in Tonga and Niue is not a regular mutation in those lan- 

 guages, yet there are other instances. The fact that Niue has both muli 

 and mui leads to the recognition of an attempt, not yet completed when 

 the language was set by reduction to writing, to differentiate muli to follow 

 and mui last. In Bukabuka tainamuri we can recognize tei (47) younger 

 brother ; and in Motu the same elements in a different order, this being still 

 one more instance of the concord of that Torres Straits station with the 

 extreme east of Polynesia. Nukuoro mule slow is not a muli form ; it does 

 not appear in Samoa, a rare instance of the failure to find in the most 

 modern Samoan the source of Nukuoro vocables, but in Niue mule a long 

 time, the source is plain. Since we know Niue to have been under direct 

 obligations to Samoa we may regard Niue and Nukuoro as preserving a 

 word which in Samoa went into disuse before record was made of the 

 language. 



In Melanesia the muri identifications are few and widely scattered. The 

 Duke of York muri and muru forms afford a transition phase by which we 

 are enabled to accept muru despite the vowel modification, and to localize 

 it in the eastern gateway and adjacent New Guinea. The Kabakada mule 

 has no such signification as would serve to establish its affinity with the 

 Nukuoro-Niue mule just discussed, or with muli. 



In Indonesia we encounter great variety of consonant mutation with 

 absolute fixity of the u-i vowels. Pampangas mulin the stern is in form 

 and in sense a perfect identification, after noting the ephelkustic n of this 

 area. Matu muli to return is exact in form, but the sense is not so satis- 

 factory. For I we have mutations to r and d; the former so common as 

 not to need discussion, the latter found in Samoa and Sikayana of the 

 Polynesian group and existing in a few traces (/-/, l-nd, l-j) in Melanesia. 

 For m we have mutations to h, to v, to b, and to extinction. Not one of 



