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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



So, one of the verses of a Tonga mourning is, " O iaooe ! gooa mate e / " or, " Alas ! he 

 is dead ! " The funeral customs of the Maoris of New Zealand, so far at least as 

 chiefs are concerned, are, as described by Von Hochstetter, similar to those of the 

 Salishans, even to the erection of a wooden image of the deceased over the grave and 

 clothing it with his favorite articles of dress. 



There are 18,000 Salishans in Canada and the United States, the result, it may 

 be, of six centuries' development. Supposing their population to have gone on 

 doubling within the reasonable rate of a century, or three generations, they must 

 have landed on the Pacific Coast a little over 280 strong. Now, it is related that a 

 Tonga chief set sail for the Fiji Islands, with two hundred and fifty followers in three 

 large canoes, carrying also provision for the voyage. Four such canoes would have 

 been ample accommodation for the Salishan immigrants, from whatsoever point they 

 directed their course to the American shore. Their numbers can hardly have been 

 less, in order to protect themselves from destruction by hostile tribes or incorporation 

 in a stronger nationality. They do not seem to have come into contact with tribes 

 of Northern Asiatic derivation to any extent, for their peculiar arts such as the birch 

 canoe and the fabrication of pottery, were unknown to them. There is, therefore, 

 nothing to traverse the testimony of language, which brings the Salishans from an 

 ancient seat in the northern part of the Malay Archipelago. 



COMPARISON OF NISKWALLI WITH MALAY-POLYNESIAN. 



Malay-Polynesian. 



galeleh Salibabo (axe) 



kabeh Java, Madura ; fooabe Tonga. 



misisin Massaratty, mosisin Cajeli, pokoma 



Maori, mokohoola Tonga. 

 kaligh Formosa. 

 tkugh Formosa. 



anakpanah Malay, gnahov/ Tonga, ngasau Fiji. 

 gelap Mysol, orapu Bouton, labbu Simda. 

 kapak Malay, Siilu ; badog Sunda, badi Bajii, 



beda Ahtiago. 

 hala Java. 



awak Bali, Sunda (body), hatuaka Liang, 

 cheong Samang, nanaka Liang (body), 

 troke Malagasy, raga Bali (body), kaleh Salayev, 



kalakalath Pelew (body), 

 kakep, tekayap Mysol (fowl), topatopa Maori. 

 walilis Sunda (teal), 

 hitam Malay, hidung Sunda, kokotu Tidore, 



kitkudu Gani, kokotu Sahoe. 

 klosso Java, kalasa Gani (mat), 

 kotteetow Pelew. 

 darah Malay, gute Java. 

 yalopei Teluti, lopi Salayer, Bugis. 

 saloi Borneo, hoi Teor. 

 dada Morelld. 

 balung Java. 

 Mio Atui. ■ 



cheka Sahoe, ichi ichi Ternate (little). 

 telaa Rotuma. 



patah Malay, whawhati, ngawhere Maori. 

 uma Maori. 



