322 Migrations in the Pacific Ocean. 
eral appellation for the group—the term Samoa. This word in 
Malay signifies al/; in process of time it seems to have lost its 
meaning as an adjective and became a mere -appellative; as we 
moan word for all, is wma, which means properly finished, com- 
plete. The changes which the word Savai would undergo in 
the several dialects, are given as follows :— 
“ Original form, - - - _ Savaiki. 
Samoan dialect, - - - Savai’i. 
Tahitian, - - - . Havai’i. 
Sandwich Island, - : - Hawai'i. 
Rarotongan and Mangarevan, - - Avaiki. 
Nukuhivan,  - - - - Havaiki. 
. New Zealand, - - - - Hawaiki.” 
Mr. Hale commences his review of the Pacific islands, with 
the Society group. | 
“ As our attention was not drawn to this subject of investigation (that 
which connects the Polynesians with Savaii) until after we left this 
“group, we are unable here to add any thing to what has been given by 
others. Fortunately this is amply sufficient for our purpose, and, as 
already remarked, has the great advantage of having been obtained and 
published without the possibility of a reference to any hypothesis like 
that now advanced. Mr. Ellis, in his Polynesian Researches (vol. il, 
. 234, American edition) says :—‘* Opoa is the most remarkable place 
in Raiatea ; of its earth, according to some of their traditions, the first 
pair were made by Tii or Taaroa, and on its soil they fixed their abode. 
Here Oro held his court. It was called Hawaii; and as distant colo- 
nies are said to have proceeded from it, it was probably the place at 
which some of the first inhabitants of the South Sea Islands arrived.’ 
As there is no w in the Tahitian language, (at least in the usual orthog- 
raphy,) it is here evidently written instead of av. In another part of 
the same work, (vol. i, p. 105,) the author in treating of the origin of 
the Society Islanders, inclines to refer them to the Sandwich Islands, 
his principal reason being, that ‘in some of their (the Tahitian) tradi- 
tions, Hawaii is mentioned as the ancient name of Opoa, and Oro, 
who is by some described as both god and man, as having two bodies 
or forms, or being a kind of connecting link between ‘ods and men, is 
described as the first king of Hawaii, or Opoa in Raiatea.’ The Tahi- 
tian v is frequently sounded like w, and Mr. Ellis here evidently chooses 
the latter element, in order to show more clearly the resemblance, oF 
rather identity, of the name, with the Hawaii of the Sandwich Islands. 
He was not at that time aware of the existence of a Savaii in the west; 
“2a 
~ mere Se 
ae 
