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of their country. All the westernmost islands, as far east as Hau, or 

 Bow Island, are inhabited, and before the late devastating wars of 

 Ngana, their population was tolerably numerous. As we advance 

 towards the east and southeast, we find islands on which there are no 

 inhabitants; and these gradually increase in number, until at length 

 the eight nearest to the Gambier Group are all in that condition. 

 Searle's Island, when discovered by Wilson in 1797, was deserted, 

 though he found some traces to show that it had been visited. 

 Thirty years later, Beechey found there a scanty population, as did 

 we in 1839. They could not have exceeded a hundred in number, 

 and of course were in no condition, as yet, to send out colonists to 

 the vacant islands south of them. 



The following list of Paumotuan words, with the corresponding 

 terms in Polynesian, is given to confirm what has been said of the 

 difference of the two languages. 



PAUMOTCAN. 



keiyi, 



paku, 



ruki,* 



paike, 



neki, 



paru, 



manania, 



wiru, 



toreu, 



penu, 



korereka, . 



hakoi, 



Icawake* , 



toite, 



takarari, 



piko, 



mayeu, 



mo/ioki, 



komo, 



rohaki, 



erire, 



rari, 



tie, . 



geti, 



ope, . 



POLYNESIAN. 



ivi, 



ao, 



pouli, . 



I; ill i, 



aft, 



ifca, 



tamahine, 



lelei, maitaki, 



last, nui, 



ulu t upoko, 



iti, riki, 



tane, 



masina, malama, 



ua or usa, 



tai, moana, . 



moe, 



nli In. 



lakau, . . 

 vai, 



matayi, . 

 fafine, . 

 tasi, 

 lua, 

 lulu. 

 fa, . . 



bone, 

 cloud, 

 dark. 



dog- 

 fire, 

 fish, 

 girl, 

 good, 

 great, 

 head, 

 little. 



man (vir). 

 moon, 

 rain, 

 sea. 



to sleep, 

 tongue, 

 tree, 

 water, 

 wind, 

 woman, 

 one. 

 two. 

 three, 

 four. 



* Some of these words have been lately introduced into the Tahitian. See the Com- 

 parative Grammar, 81. 



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