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In Motu and Wango we find a recurrence of the namo already noted in 

 Fotuna. Marina gi and Lakon g are recognized as noun-formative termi- 

 nations; the peculiar strengthening of the initial in Bugotu and Buka is 

 local to the Solomon Islands. With these notes we shall have no difficulty 

 in following through Melanesia a sequence of namu-nam-ncm-nom-num. 

 The Moanus njam, as in several other vocables noted from that first station 

 of the eastern gateway, may be assigned to Post- Polynesian influence from 

 Indonesia, noting particularly Dyak njamok and Macassar njamo ; still there 

 is Aneityum inyum of probably equivalent phonetic value and I can not 

 trace Dyak raids so far to the south. In Alo Teqel the n-t mutation is a 

 local idiosyncrasy. 



In Indonesia we have no difficulty in identifying the Malay, Bugi, Dyak, 

 and Macassar forms, but beyond that we shall find complications. Kayan 

 hamok, Pampangas yamuc seem to be in accord with Tanna kumug. MaXo.- 

 gasymw&a,Tangoan Santo wofcf, and Malo mohe seem to form another group. 

 The relation between the two groups seems to depend upon the assumption 

 or loss of the prior syllable. Assuming a common stem in mok I have 

 searched the Pacific material for some variant of that stem used in designa- 

 tion of an insect or other flying animal, but with no success. While I have 

 twice grouped Melanesia with Indonesia in these obscurities it has been 

 solely on the score of form resemblance ; it will not have escaped notice that 

 these are New Hebridean languages found much farther south than I have 

 been ready to admit within the sphere of Dyak raiders. 



Now what is the animal to which the namu designation pertains? 



The mosquito and none other, say all our authorities save the Maori and 

 the Marquesans, to whom it represents the sandfly and the gnat respec- 

 tively. But is the mosquito indigenous to this wide area of the Malay seas 

 and the Pacific? 



This is a question for the biologist with his story of the migration of 

 species. In certain parts of Polynesia the mosquito was long unknown. 

 Read the historical record for Hawaii as set down by Prof. William DeWitt 

 Alexander in "The Brief History of the Hawaiian People" page 195 : "Dur- 

 ing this year (1826) mosquitos, hitherto unknown in the islands, were intro- 

 duced at Lahaina by the ship Wellington from San Bias, Mexico." Seventy 

 years later on the neighboring island of Hawaii I found them spread from 

 the port of Hilo no greater distance than to Olaa, less than a score of miles. 

 In Samoa we may not execrate the ship that brought the pest, but we have 

 equally valid record of the introduction of this and yet another insect. In 

 the manuscript of my "Samoa o le Vavau, " awaiting its due season, I have 

 preserved the tale of the king's daughter of Manu'a who stood on the shore 

 gazing out into the east and into the face of her hero coming over the 

 unknown seas to greet her. "I'll come back and marry you," he said, 

 "and meanwhile keep my treasure safe against my return, but on no account 

 open it." He gave her a tube of two joints of bamboo with their inter- 

 vening septum and with the open ends of each cavity plugged. Pandora 

 of the South Sea, from one end flew a swarm of flies, from the other a mist 

 of mosquitos, and her hero never did come back. 



It may be objected that these migrations could never have preserved the 

 name when thev no longer had reason to remember it in new lands whither 



