NATURE 



{Jan. 13, r88i 



referred to under diverse forms as the original home of 

 the race, or otherwise persists, as shown in the subjoined 

 hst, which will also serve to illustrate the permutation of 

 letters in all these closely-connected dialects : — 

 Savaiki. — Organic Sawaiori form of the word. 

 Savaii. — The Samoan form ; here still the name of 



the island referred to in the Sawaiori traditions. 

 Havaii. — The Tahitian form; here "the universe," 

 " the world '' in the national odes ; also the old 

 capital of Raiatea Island. 

 AvAIKl. — The Rarotonga form ; here " the land under 



the wind." 

 Hawaiki. — The IVIaori form ; here the land whence 

 came the first inhabitants of New Zealand. 



Havaiki. — The Marquesas form; here "the lower 

 regions of the dead." Over the victims in humarj 

 sacrifices are uttered the words, " To fenua Ha- 

 vaiki " = Return to the land of thy forefathers. 



Hawaii. — The Sandwich form ; here still the chief 

 island of the group. 



Heavai. — The form in chart published by R. Forster in 

 vol. V. of Cook's Second Voyage, and based on 

 information furnished by Tapaia, a native of Tahiti, 

 ■who had no personal knowledge of Samoa. 



Heawije.— The form given by Cook in his account of 

 his first visit to New Zealand (1770).'" 



started from Java, they could not have carried its present name with theor. 

 I note that Prof. Saycc now identifies 7^«;« with the Etrjscan^«' 

 counting for the J by assimilation with Jattua {Academy, August 21, ] 

 But is not ynnua itself a derived form from Janus, whence also 



» " Philology and Ethnology of the Inter-Oceanic Races,'' by .\. H. 

 Keane, in Stanf.rd's " Australasia," 1879. 



