400 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



In item 324 we have discussed the stem mata the eye and the sense of 

 sight. This longo seems to serve for the other sense. This we shall 

 examine in general and in particular. 



(1) Sense perception in general: Samoa, Futuna, Niue, Uvea, Maori, 



Mangareva, Tonga, Marquesas ; Efate, Omba, Vaturanga, Nggao, 

 Ambrym, Retan, Norbarbar, Lo, Mota. 



(2) To hear: Samoa, Fakaafo, Niue, Uvea, Nukuoro, Rarotonga, 

 Hawaii, Maori, Mangaia, Mangareva, Aniwa, Fotuna, Paumotu, 

 Tonga, Marquesas, Viti; Efate, New Britain, Lambell, King, Duke 

 of York, Baravon, Raluana, Bierian, Nguna, Arag, Sesake, Malo, 

 Nggela, Vaturanga, Volow, Omba, Marina, Mota, Gog, Ambrym, 

 Retan, Motlav, Vuras, Mosin, Lo, Santo, Baki ; Java, Malay. 



(3) To smell: Niue, Maori; Sesake, Mota. 



(4) To taste: Maori; Mota. 



(5) To feel: Maori; Mota. 



The last three deserve a little closer inspection. 



(3) To smell. Niue: longona, to smell; hongi, to smell. The latter is 

 external ; it is the sniff with which the odor-emanations are welcomed to the 

 olfactory nerve-endings ; the apperception rests in longona. Maori: rongo, 

 to smell; hongi, to smell; whakamono, to smell. Whakamono is to sniff, to 

 sniff up, to smell, and probably in reference to a nauseous odor, for mono- 

 mono means unpleasant to the smell. It also is external ; the apperception 

 rests in rongo. Mota: rongo, to smell; punpun, to smell; soman, to smell. 

 Punpun in sense is the Mota equivalent of Polynesian songi as found in the 

 Niue and Maori preceding, this shown in the fact that it means to sniff 

 in general and in particular designates the salutation roughly called rubbing 

 noses. Soman means to put the nose to. These two, therefore, are 

 external; the apperception rests in rongo. 



(4) To taste. Maori: rongo, to taste; wharakai, to taste. We have 

 only the definition of the latter and are without information as to the 

 extent and manner of its use. Mota : rongo, to taste ; nam, namis, to taste. 

 The latter is physical ; it means to touch with the tongue ; it is external ; 

 the apperception rests in rongo. If rongo in Maori and Mota had not such 

 a catholic applicability to all sense perception except sight we should 

 find an interesting text in the fact that these savage people had arrived 

 at a comprehension of the intimate association of taste and smell which 

 has not become at all commonly familiar to persons of far wider range of 

 information. 



(5) To feel. In the extreme brevity of our vocabularies no attempt has 

 been made to note the distinction between feel in its tactile sense and the 

 broader signification of perception in general. We are therefore not justi- 

 fied in attempting a differentiation not warranted by our authorities. 



The following general conclusions seem well supported by the facts of 

 this record. 



At a period but narrowly anterior to the Tongafiti or later migration the 

 psychology of the Polynesian recognized two sense perceptions, the sense 

 of sight and the other sense. When this other sense began to differentiate 

 in the direction of the knowledge of the sense perceptions which our own 



