I 



400 



REMARK S 



O N 



THE 



MANNERS uiiderftood. We found, lioweven, that the language fpoken at 



Eafter ifland, the Marquefas, the Low, the Society, and Friendly- 

 iilands, and in New-Zeeland,, is the fame, and that the differ- 

 ences are hardly fufficient to conftitute dialeds. The larigua2;es 



fpoke 



at th 



New-Hebrides, Ne\\' 



and Kew-Hol- 



land, are abfolutely diflincfl from the above general language, and 

 likewife diifer among themfelves. From a comparifon of the vo- 



J- 



cabularies^ in Schouten and le Maire's voyage, with one colled;ed 



W 



at the Friendly-iilands., it appears, that they fpeak entirely the 

 tame dialed, in the Friendly-iilands, and in thofe of Hope, Coco's, 

 and Traitor Sy to the North of the above iilands.. If we may be 



■ 



allowed to make an inference from one fmo^le word, I Ihould think 



that at Chicayanay * a low ifiand, four days fail from Taiimaco, 



*if 



the fame dialed is fpoken, fince 



■ghooree, is, in both 



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.places the name for a dog; nay, even at the New-Caroline- 

 Islands, they call the 



plaintive fongs of their 



women tongtier 



ifaifih 



and in New-Zeeland, and the Friendly-iilands, the 



fame would be exprelfed by tanghee fefeine, which is not fo very 

 different, as to difcourage our guelTnig at the fimilarity of both 



"r 



languages,. The language of Ci'/V^j'^/z^, is likewife, in my opniion, 



nearly related to that of the Tagalas, on the illand of Lugon, be- 



caiife 



^ Dalrymple's Colledion, vol, i. p. 159. 



f Dcs Broffcs Hill, des Navigat. aux Tcrrcs Auftral. vol. ii. p, 486, 



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