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Teebooai is from its fitaation very probably Hood's IJland 



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one of the Marqiiefas. 

 Whatarre-oora. In Mr. Banks's chart I find the name 



Wh 



and in two other lifts the laft word 



was 



fpelt 



oora 



for 



ero 



fo that I think it is plain from the 



nature of the languag 



-that Whatarre 



the true 



r 



writing of the name. ' The name Waitahoo given to the ifle 

 of Chriftina by the natives themfelves, confirms this ftill 



more, for we found that the inhab 



of 



Marquefas 



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never or at leaft very feldom pronounced the r -, this was 

 evident to me from a vocabulary of about eighty words 

 not containing a fingle word with an r. 



and from the 



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circumftance that all the words in the Taheitee language 

 correfponded with the words of the language of Waitahoo^ 

 with this difference only that the canine letter was_ either 



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omitted or foftened. In O-Taheitee the phrafe come hither 

 is expreffed by harre-mai, in Waitahoo by hanna-mai-, the 

 hand is called re'ema, and in the Marquefas heema-y two 

 is exprefi^ed aroha at Taheitee, and ho-hoha at Waitahoo ; 

 three is atoroo, and j^!?-^(5-i>5 at the latter place; five is called 

 ■reema, but at Waitahoo Joeema ^ great is roa, and at the 



Marquefas oa. 



The illand of Dominica was called Oheeva-oa 



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