238 Transactions. —M iscellaneous. 
Of course it must be understood, that the investigation is circumscribed 
by the limited number of dictionaries or vocabularies in my possession ; 
thus, though many of the words are not found in them, yet it is not to be 
taken for granted that they will not be dug out from the strata of the many 
yet unknown languages spoken between Madagascar and Polynesia; all 
experience showing that radical words are never wholly lost, for if one 
branch of a race accepts new words, another branch yet retains them. 
Coming to remarks on the comparison, it will be seen that there are 
thirty-nine out of the one hundred and fifty-five words which are not Maori, 
or else, if Maori, are variations of the language sufficient to claim distinctive 
notice. Of the first word, i.e., the personal pronoun I, the Moriori analogue 
is found in three of the principle groups in Polynesia, and also in fourteen 
of the tribes of Non-Aryan Hindostan. But the analysis of this portion of 
the subject will be best made, by such readers as are interested, for them- 
selves. I shall therefore confine myself to generally stating, that there are 
fifteen Moriori words out of the thirty-nine which are not reproduced in the 
limited list of works which I possess. 
Five words will be seen to belong to the Fijian Group, four to the 
Samoan, twelve to the Hawaiian, two to the Murihiku dialect of New Zealand, 
eleven to the Malay, two the Malagasi, seven to the Non-Aryan tribes of 
Hindostan, but, stating it differently, these seven words are found seventy- 
seven times in these Barat tribes. 
The inferences to be drawn, so far as inferences can be made from such 
limited data, are consistent with the principle elucidated in the previous 
papers, viz.: that the furthest and earliest waves of migration accord most 
in the roots of their languages with the centre from which they migrated. 
Thus as we know the Moriori to have preceded the Maori, we accept him 
to be one of these earliest waves. The analogy between it and the Hawaiian 
(an acknowledged most primitive tribe) is, therefore, striking; but the more 
so is this the case when we sean the root-words of the archaie foeus of the 
race in Ancient or Non-Aryan India. 
The deductions therefore accord with those of preceding papers. 
