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vation proceeded from Hana-rura to Ovvbyee, 

 where Tamaahmaah at that time resided. M. 

 Marin was at Owhyee, where it scarcely began to 

 penetrate. When we asked M. Marin how such 

 or such a word had been called in the new lan- 

 guage, he consulted the natives of Hana-rura who 

 were present, to all of whom the circumstance 

 was well known, but who had mostly forgotten 

 the new words. * M. Marin knew of no other 

 instance of arbitrary change of language in these 

 islands; Kadu had acquired no idea of such a 

 thing in the Caroline islands. 



Man has emigrated from the great countries 

 lying between Asia and New Holland, contrary to 

 the course of the wind, from east to west, and has 

 taken possession of all the points of land which 

 rise from the Great Ocean, as far as the distant and 

 detached island of Pascha, which lies far remote in 

 the east. His language proves his origin. His 

 manners, customs, and arts indicate it. His do- 

 mestic animals, and useful plants, which have 



* Thus we can give only an insufficient specimen of this 

 entire creation of a hvnguagc, which, though satisfactorily 

 authenticated to us, so lar exceeds the measure of our imagin- 

 ation that we do not venture to ask belief in it. ^ 



M.Marin pronounces it ///o, otherwise wc hear Lio. 



