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Tuousox.—On Pronouns and other Barat Fossil Words. 288 
Hinpostan, 
Gyami, khye ; Lohorong, chae ; Dungmali, choye ; Denwar, khaik ; 
Kuswar, khaik ; Tharu, khai; Shan, kyen; Siamese, kenn. 
The root of allis a. In Malagasi, with a prefix of mihin and suffix of 
na; in Malay, of mak and n. In the Polynesian dialects the root is 
inflected. 
In the Continental tribes, the analogues are found in Tibet, khye; in 
Nepal, chae, choye, khaik, khai; and in Indo-China, kyen, kenn, which latter 
assimilates to Malay. 
In Javanese, the term is mangan, which assimilates to Malay. 
As this will conclude the series of papers that I have written on the 
subject, commencing with an enquiry as to ‘‘ The Whence of the Maori," 
but which has led me over extensive ground,* I shall now recapitulate some 
of the main points touched on. 
This, or kindred studies, have arrested the attention of many previous 
writers on the mythology, traditions, chaunts, and legends of the Maori. 
I have read with interest the works and papers of Sir George Grey, 
Lieutenant Shortland, Mr. Colenso, and Dr. Arthur S. Thomson; but those 
authors who had dealt with the question to which my efforts have been 
more closely allied were especially Mr. James Richardson Logan and 
- John Crawfurd, both of Singapore. The works of Humboldt, Bopp, and 
Hale, I have not been able to obtain. These enquirers had their attention 
engaged with kindred ethnological and philological fields, and in regard to 
that to which I have confined myself their notices have been incidental 
rather than comprehensive. 
With such able ethnologists preceding me, it must be confessed that 
many facts were anticipated; yet my labours, I submit, need not be con- 
sidered to be entirely thrown away, for—with the light that has been shed 
on the subject by the untiring labours of Hodgson, Hunter, Campbell, 
Koelle, Bleeck, Clark, etc., etc., whose dictionaries and vocabularies have 
only been recently published—I have had data brought to hand which 
the writers of thirty years ago could not obtain. These I have freely 
searched, using, as my clue, the Malayan tongue, with whose language and 
literature, as I have already stated, I can claim acquaintance, 
In my first paper, which was ethnological, I was carried, in my search 
for the “ Whence of the Maori,” beyond Malaya (the popularly-accepted 
* “ Whence of the Maori” (Ethnological), Trans., N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 1. 
. (Barata 
Do. : Numerals) do. Vol. V., p. 131. 
Do. do. (Philological) do. Vol. VL, App. 
G or Barata Fossil Words” do. Vol. XL, p. 157. 
