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names, or nearly twenty per cent, are employed in Tonga, being distributed 

 among the five groups as follows: Tongatabu 71, \'avau 47, Haapai 40. 

 Niuafoou 15, and Niuatoputapu 9. 



The order of frequency of Samoan names in Tonga is very nearly the 

 order of frequency of Tongan names. (See Table i.) Again Haapai is 

 out of accord with expectancy. Haapai has 1610 names against \'avau's 

 1 5 13, yet \'avau has 47 names in common with Samoa against Haapai's 

 40. A full gazetteer of Samoan place names would probably maintain the 

 proportions revealed by the present sample. Here, perhaps, is another 

 clue to the anomalous position of Haapai in reference to the rest of Tonga. 

 Tongatabu and Vavau have absorbed more Samoan place names than 

 Haapai, or conversely, perhaps, Samoa has borrowed more names from 

 Tongatabu and Vavau, than from Haapai. 



The high proportion of Samoan names found in Tongatabu is probably 

 due in some measure to the large number of place names (2264) in Tonga- 

 tabu, increasing the chances for Samoan parallels. On the other hand 

 there are some Tongatabuans with Samoan blood in their veins. Even 

 the line of Tui Kanokupolu chiefs now supreme in Tonga, sprang from a 

 Samoan woman, the mother of Ngata the first Tui Kanokupolu, who was 

 probably appointed about 1610. It is this line of rulers, half Samoan in 

 origin, who today hold the throne of Tonga, Her Majesty Queen Char- 

 lotte Tupou being the 21st Tui Kanokupolu. It seems clear therefore that 

 the high percentage of Samoan names in Tongatabu, more than a tenth 

 of those listed for Samoa by Kramer, is due to something more than the 

 operation of the law of chance. 



It is worthy of note in this connection that of names shared exclusively 

 by Samoa and one Tongan group, Tongatabu and Samoa have 27, Haapai 

 and Samoa 7, \'avau and Samoa 7. In other words, of the 71 names 

 common to Samoa and Tongatabu, 27 are shared by Samoa and Tongatabu 

 to the exclusion of other Tongan groups. This is very likely correlated 

 with the direct infusion of Samoan blood into the population of Tongatabu- 



