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noses, as is still the custom among the Maoris. I believe the Maori used 
the nose-flute in common with the Tongese and Tahitians :—*'* The scrupu- 
lous regard which the natives of New Zealand pay to the graves of their 
dead is equally observed among the Sumatrans, and the native clothing of 
the latter people is precisely the same, both in texture and material, to that 
worn by the Otaheitans, and which is made of the papyrus tree."* With 
respect to the language, Mr. Nicholas remarks :t—'* The subjoined vocabu- 
lary was eompiled by Mr. Kendall previously to my departure from New 
South Wales, at which place it has been printed by order of Mr. Marsden, 
who sent several books of it to New Zealand for the instruction of the 
children there. The compiler derived considerable assistance from a copious 
collection of words in the Otaheitan language, with which he was furnished 
by one of the missionaries who had resided for some years at Eimeo. This 
collection formed a vocabulary of nearly 2,000 words, the greater number of 
which had so close an affinity to those of New Zealand that Mr. Kendall 
found it necessary to make but little alteration in the most of them, and in 
some not at all. The genius and construction of the two dialects appear to 
be perfectly the same, and the like identity is observable in the extensive 
voeabulary of Tonga words collected by Mr. Mariner." 
ENGLISH. NEW ZEALAND. TONGA. 
Kotahi Taha 
2 ne Kadooa Oo'a 
3 Katoodoo To'loo. 
4 Kawha a 
5 Ka-deema Nima 
6 * Ka-hunnoo 0 
7 Ka-whittoo oe Fi'too 
8 Ka.whádoo Va'loo 
9 5 . Ka-hewha Hi'va 
10 e Kanghahoodoo v Ongofoo'loo. 
20 as Katikow manahoodoo  .. Tecow. 
Note B. 
It was not at all an infrequent thing, in the good old times, for a great 
canoe, with its hundred warriors, to leave Tonga and sack a town in Samoa 
or Fiji, 400 miles distant ; but those times have passed away. The Kerma- 
decs are only about 600 miles south of Tonga, and New Zealand 800 miles. 
I have seen many a Tonga man whom I might readily have mistaken for a 
Maori. This statement also applies to the Samoans. A Samoan fish-hook 
and a Maori fish-hook are exactly the same, both in form and material, yet 
this very tool is of a most remarkable plan and construction, so much so 
that for two separate and distinct tribes to hit upon the like idea is not at all 
* Nicholas, Vol. IL, p. 287. + Vol. IL, p. 323, 
