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The great chief is called Aree-rahai : the refl of his famiTp 

 are all Arees, and have feme landed property, and among them. 



we obferved men of ftill greater 



rank and authority, who were 

 chiefs of the difFerents diftrids, or Whennuas in the ifle, andi 



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were called after the diftri6t> which was entrufted to their care and 

 government; thus Hapai O-Tu's father was Aree 7iO-parre, chief of 

 Oparre; O-Retti was chief of 0.'Hiddea ^ O-Amo was chief of 

 Papara-, T-Owha and Potatou were joint-chiefs of Atahoorooi^ 

 Toppere had the diredion of Matavai and Toomataroa that o£ 

 Tittahaw.. Befides thefe, is a clafs of people cdlUd. Manahou7ies^, 

 who have landed property ; and laftly, thofe belonging to the lowefl. 



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rank of people are called Hoiitous, 



As feveral words of the Malay language, are found in the O-Ta 



be confidered as 



willing to affirm 



heitee tongue, and its various dialers, they 

 proofs of the origin of thefe illanders. 



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that they are abfolutely the immediate oiFspring of the Malays 

 but it appeared to me very obvious from many concurrii 



g circum 



ilances, that they were defcendcd from fome tribes, that are related to 

 the Malays. The Tagalas and Pampangas are no doubt the of- 

 fpring of the Malays ; for Dr. Gemelli Carrcri affirms, that they 

 came from the continent of Malacca, and they themfelves allow 



that they cama from Borneo.* The inhabitants of the Ladrones 



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f Voyage autour du mondc par Gemelli Carrcri, torn, v. p. 64* 



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