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of the use of the Dampier-Vitiaz exit. The second course of migra- 

 tion, which I have designated the Viti Stream, appears to have issued 

 from Indonesia by the Arafura Sea and Torres Straits along the south 

 coast of New Guinea, thence parallel but in no sense interlacing with 

 the Samoa Stream west of the Solomon Islands and coming again to 

 land in the Banks Group and other islands of the northern and central 

 New Hebrides Ai'chipelago, thence to Fiji, and eventuallj^ rejoining 

 the sundered members of their own family in Samoa. 



The study of the Beach-la-Mar, so far as concerns the Unguistic 

 problems arising for solution, is devoted to the establishment of the 

 parts of speech which we are to regard as fundamental in the Poly- 

 nesian languages. These parts of speech are but three: the attribu- 

 tive, in which are included all those vocables which in all languages of 

 higher development are known as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and 

 adverbs; the demonstrative, which includes the article, the pronouns, 

 and certain of the primitive adverbs of time and place and in an 

 obscure degree of manner; the third, and for purposes of examination 

 and grammar growth the most interesting, is the paradeictic, in which 

 is included the germ element of the preposition and the conjunction. 



The Easter Island volume is purely devoted to a study of the extent 

 and manner of the mixture of Tongafiti and Proto-Samoan in the 

 present speech of Samoa and Nuclear Polynesia. 



The study of the greater problem in the development of the major 

 project is almost wholly devoted to the examination of the speech 

 material common to Indonesia and Polynesia. Employing this mate- 

 rial in application to the problem of the position of Polynesian speech 

 in systematic philology, I have, in the Subanu volume, presented all 

 the arguments for the abolition of Bopp's Malayo-Polynesian speech 

 family. I have, furthermore, completed the proof that Polynesian 

 is an isolating speech and on that account can not be associated in 

 any wise with the agglutinant languages of Indonesia. These initial 

 and explanatory chapters of the present inquiry will be concluded by 

 the examination of the Sissano speech of the northern coast of New 

 Guinea, which, at the time of the submission of this report, is far ad- 

 vanced toward publication. The material thence derived is employed 

 for the more definite determination of the movement of Proto-Samoan 

 migration through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and in 

 that point particular attention will be directed toward the relative impor- 

 tance of the Dampier-Vitiaz Straits and St. George's Channel exits. 



In all this prehminary work particular attention and careful studj^ 

 have been directed upon the character of Polynesian inclusions or loan 

 material in Melanesia. It is interesting to observe that another 

 inquirer, working with a wholly different object in view, and employ- 

 ing distinct materials in social life, has discovered in this same Melane- 

 sian area a ready and direct avenue to the study of the evolution of 

 human society at what must appear to be its cradle stage. I refer in 



