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e and i, and the last two before the vowels a, o, and n, as a hoe, a 

 paddle, a ima, a hand ; e atu, a boriito (fish), e upoko, a head ; and in 

 the same manner, ta hoe, the paddle, te atu, the bonito, &c. Thirty 

 years later (in 1829), on a second visit to Nukuhiva, he corrected this 

 draft in many particulars, and among others, changed the a and ta, 

 in all cases, to e and te, as in the Tahitian. It is, however, not un- 

 likely that the first orthography was correct for the southern cluster 

 of the Marquesas, and if so, we have the origin of the two articles in 

 Hawaiian, ta and te, the former being the most common, and the 

 latter used chiefly before nouns beginning with t, a, and o. 



The Tahitian uses for demonstrative pronouns taua-nei, and taua- 

 ra, as taua vda nei, this canoe ; taua taata ra, that man. The 

 Hawaiian omits the ta, and has simply ua-nei and ua-la, as ua rvda 

 nei, ua tanata la. The Nukuhivan has, according to Mr. Crook, hua- 

 nei and hua-na ; as, hua vda nei, hua anata na. But it seems 

 probable that the h here is superfluous. Mr. Crook spells the name 

 of the island Uahuka, " Huahuga ;" ohikape, the name of a fish, he 

 spells " hui-koppe." However this may be, the similarity between 

 this and the Hawaiian form is evident. 



The Marquesan and Hawaiian are the only dialects whicVi use the 

 preposition ma before the locative adverbs, as 



before. 



behind. 



above. 



by the sea, sea- ward. 



As a plural sign, to denote a company or party, the Tahitian has 

 pue ; the Nukuhivan (or Tahuatan) changes it to poe, like the Ha- 

 waiian. The first, to express " the party of artisans," would have " te 

 pue tahua;" the second ta poe tuhuna ; and the third, tapoe tahuna. 



The prohibitive sign is, in Tahitian, eiaJta (formerly aua], as eiaha 

 oe e amu, eat thou not. The Tahuatan uses, instead of this, moi, fol- 

 lowed by the conjunction ia, that; as, moi ia kai oe, beware that thou 

 eat not. The Hawaiian abbreviates this to mai, as mai ai oe, eat not 

 thou. 



On the other hand, it will be seen, by referring to the Grammar, 

 that in many respects the Nukuhivan, as might be expected, differs 

 from the Hawaiian and resembles the Tahitian ; and in a few parti- 



