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probable. From my knowledgo of the South Seas, I have often been 
inclined to consider that the Maoris, Tongese, Samoans, Rarotongans, and 
Hervey Islanders are all sprung from the same tribe, and that their islands 
were originally peopled from Tahiti. Often indeed, even now, Tahitian 
canoes are driven a three weeks’ journey to the westward, or westward and 
southward, the people, happening to be in them, living upon a few cocoa- 
nuts as long as such a supply lasted. Also, that Tahiti itself may have 
been peopled by a migration from the Sandwich Islands, unless indeed these 
two groups of islands were peopled at one and the same time by a migrating 
tribe from the parent Malay country. It is, however, a strange circum- 
stance, that nearly all these islanders claim some acquaintance with Hawii, 
the principal island of the Sandwich group, the Savii (=Tharii) of Samoa 
being almost similar in pronunciation, and the Hauraki of New Zealand 
being a derivative. The Hawaiian mythos pervades the different groups, 
especially, as I have before said, the deeds of the great god Maui. I might 
indeed go further, and say that the natives of all the islands of Eastern 
Polynesia are sprung from the same origin, and in support of this statement 
I attach a comparative view of the numerals of the different dialects that I 
have taken from a table compiled by the Rey. G. Turner, LL.D., to which 
I refer my hearers :—* 
Sand- New 
Marque- LB : Raro- Mana- Savage | Union 
pies Tahiti. Ie tonga. hiki. Samoa. Island. | Group. Tonga. Perd 
1| Tahi Tahi |Kahi Tgi Tahi Tasi Taha Tasi | Taha | Tahi 
2| Ua Rua ua Lua Lua Rua 
3| Tou Toru | Akolo Toru Toru Tolu Tolu Tolu | Tolu | Toru 
4| Fa a A a Fa a 2 Wha 
5| Ima Rima Rima Lima Lima Lima Lima |Nima | Rima 
6| Ono Ono Eono Ono Ono Ono Ono Ono Ono Ono 
&7| Fitu Hitu |Ahiku |Itu Hitu Fitu Fitu Fitu |Fitu | Whitu 
8 Vau Varu |Aualu Valu Varu Valu Valu Valu |Valu | Waru 
9| Iva Iva Aiwa Tua Iva Iva Iva Iva Hiva | Iwa 
10| Onohu'u| Ahuru | Umi Ngaulu | Launga-|Sefulu | Hongo- | Sefulu| Honga-| Nga- 
P? pris fulu fulu im 
20 Eu'aono- Ta'au |Iwaka- | Eluanga| Takau | Luafulu|Uahon-|Lua- |Luo- | Ruate- 
hu'u lua ulu gofulu| fulu| fulu| kau 
100} Au Umiumi| Lau me Selau Te au Selau | Teau | Rau 
au 
1,000} Mano Mano Ualau |Afe Afe Afe Afe Mano 
10,000 Mano Mano Mano | Mano 
The reason that the numerals of the Union Group (Bowditeh Island) 
happen to be so exactly like those of Samoa, arises, I believe, from the fact 
that Samoans colonized the group. The same reasoning applies to Savage 
Island and Tonga. The only other islanders in the Pacific whose numerals 
* “Nineteen years in Polynesia.” 
