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Kemotuaroeia. In this way at least, and no other, can I 

 account for that island being called in the log - book 

 Cumettiwarroweia. The same is practised by the inhabit- 

 ants of the South Sea Islands, only their particle, instead of 

 ke or ko, is to or to, ; their oeia is exactly the same, and, 

 when I first began to learn the language, produced many 

 difficulties and mistakes. 



