810 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
nor any of the officers of the ‘‘ Endeavour” had good ears for 
catching native sounds, a failing which seems to attach to the 
English much more so than to the French. For instance, in the 
New Zealand names preserved by Cook, many are very unlike the 
reality, whilst those written by D’Urville are nearly all easily 
recognised, and many of them are exact. Second, those who took 
down the information supplied by Tupaea understood but little 
of his language, and, therefore, in some cases, descriptions have 
become part of the proper names on the chart. Third, the error 
already pointed out by Hale and De Quatrefages, that through this 
ignorance, some parts of the chart have been inverted. Where 
the islands were unknown to Cook and his officers, their positions 
relatively to Tahiti are generally indicated truly ; but it is toler- 
ably clear, that during part ofthe operation, the chart has been 
turned end for end, without the knowledge of Tupaea, or without 
his understanding what was done, and consequently whole groups 
of islands have been placed in the wrong quadrant of the map, 
whilst retaining generally their proper mutual positions. It is 
quite clear that something of this kind has occurred, and Tupaea 
has probably helped to make the confusion worse by trusting to 
the supposed superior knowledge of the Europeans. We find, for 
instance, the words, He too te ra written on the east end of parallel 
of 17° south latitude, and Yoo-te-ra also at the west end. Now 
the meaning of this is ‘‘ The sun set,” or the west ; and had there 
not been some shifting of the chart during the time the informa- 
tion was being recorded, Tupaea would never have made such a 
mistake as that. This is unfortunate, as it renders the identifica- 
tion of the islands more dependent on Cook’s barbarous names 
than on their positions ; and moreover, I think it is due to this 
cause that the names appear to jump from one group to another 
in the list below. 
In the copy of the original names given below, in most cases, 
the “O,” or article used before proper names has been given by 
Forster as part of the name, but in the third column, where an 
endeavour has been made to render the names into modern Poly- 
nesian, this is omitted. I have added to the list of identifications 
about thirty-four names, and shown that others are probable ; 
these are in addition to those which Forster had already recog- 
nised. If we were better acquainted with the native names of 
the islands, others referred to on Tupaea’s chart would be recog- 
nised. Some of those he has given are probably old names which 
have since been changed, thus rendering their identification a 
work of difficulty, and moreover, these old Tahitian voyagers pro- 
bably gave names to islands which are not known to the people 
of those islands ; as, for instance, in cases where the Tahitian 
alphabet did not contain letters used by other branches of the 
race, 
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