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Abbreviations Employed in the FopvEGOing Table — continued. 



Explanation of the construction of the Table. — The names are grouped in 

 the vertical columns according to regions, which may be geographical, e.g., the 

 Indian Ai'chipelago, or linguistic, e.g., East Polynesia. The letters in brackets 

 indicate the island, language, or dialect, and are explained in the list of 

 abbreviations. The horizontal lines are em])loyed to separate the names 

 according to their linguistic affinities ; thus, there are five sets of names given 

 for the banana and two for the sweet-potato. The laws of the letter-changes 

 for the Indian Archipelago and Polynesia may be found illustrated in Prof. 

 Kern's " Stamland " paper and in his Fidji-taal, etc. For Polynesia only, 

 see Tregear's Comparative Maori Dictionary. 



