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both. The Taipi, like the inhabitants of the Hervey and Friendly 

 Islands, uses the deep guttural ng (r?) for which the Teii uses k, and 

 the Tahuatan, like the Hawaiian, uses n. To illustrate this a few 

 examples will suffice : 



TEII. TAIPI. TAIIUATA. 



Iiakiuka, . . . haiunga, . , . hakiuna, . . . cattle. 



haka, .... hanga, .... hana, .... work. 



mataki, . . . matangi, . . . matani, .... wind. 



moeka, .... moenga, . . . moena, .... a mat." 



By a short vocabulary of the language of Fatuhiva, obtained from 

 a native at Tahiti, it appears that the f is in use in that island, and 

 probably in the rest of the southern cluster, instead of the h which 

 prevails in the northern,* as 



FATUHIVA. NUKUHIVA. 



fafa, haha, mouth. 



fetu, hetu, ..'... star. 



fitu, hitu, seven. 



fou, hou, new. 



There is also a wide difference in the mode of enumeration at the 

 two clusters, both in the words used and the value affixed to them, 

 for which see the Grammar, 31. 



There is no other group of Polynesia in which variations to this 

 extent prevail, and it is impossible to account for them satisfactorily 

 merely from the division of the people into numerous tribes. This 

 cause should operate much more strongly in New Zealand than at 

 the Marquesas Islands, yet the same language and pronunciation 

 prevail, as we were assured by the missionaries, with some trifling 

 exceptions, from Cook's Strait to the North Cape. The most natural 

 solution is that the two clusters in the Marquesan Group, received 

 their population originally from different sources, and that the de- 

 scendants of the first colonists, intermingling in various proportions, 

 have formed several tribes, which, though bearing a general resem- 

 blance to one another, do not constitute a homogeneous whole, as in 

 the other groups of Polynesia. The different counties of England 

 and provinces of France are examples of the same effect produced by 

 a similar cause. It has been found, moreover, that much of the social 

 polity and many of the customs which prevail in the southern cluster 

 of the Marquesas, are unlike those of the northern. 



* This observation has been since confirmed from Mr. Crook's MS. grammar. 



