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TABLE 2. PliRCKNTAGE OF PECULIAR AND SHARED NAMES IN EACH GROUP 



Peculiar Shared 



Tongatabu 6g 31 



Haapai 66 34 



Vavau 62 38 



Niuafoou 60 40 



\iuatoputapu 52 48 



The variation in percentage of peculiar names shown in Table 2 may 

 in some measure be correlated with the political importance of the several 

 groups. The Tongatabu group, with its relatively large land masses, has 

 always been, so far as known, the political center of gravity of the king- 

 dom, a condition which might well be instrumental in developing a wealth 

 of peculiar place names. 



Table 3 shows the total number of names in common for each two 

 groups. The most striking feature of this table is the relatively small 

 number of names which Vavau and Haapai have in common, considering 

 that they are adjacent groups. This becomes especially apparent by con- 

 trast if one examines the figures of Table i : Vavau shares 97 out of 

 remote Niuafoou's 167 shared names, but only 168 out of neighboring 

 Haapai's 541 shared names. The situation is made clearer in Tables 

 4 and 5. 



TABLE 3. — NUMBER OF NAMES IN COMMON BETWEEN EACH TWO GROUPS 



Tongatabu Haapai Vavau Niuafoou 



Tongatabu 



Haapai 425 



Vavau 446 168 



Niuafoou 123 gi 97 



Xiuatoputapu 59 53 62 27 



Table 4 shows the number of names in common between each two 

 groups, expressed in percentages of the number of shared names in each 

 of the groups. This table should be read downward, the name at the 

 head of each column being that of the group under consideration : Thus, 

 Vavau has jy per cent of its shared names in common with Tongatabu, 

 but Tongatabu has only 63 per cent of its shared names in common with 

 Vavau. 



TABLE 4. — PERCE.N'TAGE OF NA.MES SHARED BY EACH TWO GROUPS 



Tongatabu Haapai \'avau Niuafoou Niuatoputapu 



Tongatabu 78 77 7i 64 



Haapai 60 29 54 57 



Vavau 63 31 58 67 



Niuafoou 17 16 16 29 



Niuatoputapu 8 9 10 16 



