Phillips. — On the Use of Projectile Weapons by the Maoris. 



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noses, as is still the custom among the Maoris. I believe the Maori used 

 the nose-flute in common with the Tongese and Tahitians : — " The scrupu- 

 lous regard which the natives of New Zealand pay to the graves of their 

 dead is equally observed among the Sumatrans, and the native clothing of 

 the latter people is precisely the same, both in texture and material, to that 

 worn by the Otaheitans, and which is made of the papyrus tree."* With 

 respect to the language, Mr. Nicholas remarks :f — " The subjoined vocabu- 

 lary was compiled by Mr. Kendall previously to my departure from New 

 South Wales, at which place it has been printed by order of Mr. Marsden, 

 who sent several books of it to New Zealand for the instruction of the 

 children there. The compiler derived considerable assistance from a copious 

 collection of words in the Otaheitan language, with which he was furnished 

 by one of the missionaries who had resided for some years at Eimeo. This 

 collection formed a vocabulary of nearly 2,000 words, the greater number of 

 which had so close an affinity to those of New Zealand that Mr. Kendall 

 found it necessary to make but little alteration in the most of them, and in 

 some not at all. The genius and construction of the two dialects appear to 

 be perfectly the same, and the like identity is observable in the extensive 

 vocabulary of Tonga words collected by Mr. Mariner." 



English. 



New Zealand. 



Tonga. 



1 



Kotahi 



Ta'ha. 



2 



Kadooa 



Oo'a. 



3 



Katoodoo 



To'loo. 



4 



Kawha 



Fa. 



5 



Ka-deema 



Nima. 



6 



Ka-hunnoo 



Ono. 



7 



Ka-whittoo • 



Fi'too. 



8 



Ka.whadoo 



Va'loo. 



9 



Ka-hewlia 



Hi'va. 



10 



Kanghahoodoo 



Ongofoo'loo 



20 



Katikow manahoodoo 



Tecow. 



Note B. 

 It was not at all an infrequent thing, in the good old times, for a great 

 canoe, with its hundred warriors, to leave Tonga and sack a town in Samoa 

 or Fiji, 400 miles distant ; but those times have passed away. The Kerma- 

 decs are only about 600 miles south of Tonga, and New Zealand 800 miles. 

 I have seen many a Tonga man whom I might readily have mistaken for a 

 Maori. This statement also applies to the Samoans. A Samoan fish-hook 

 and a Maori fish-hook are exactly the same, both in form and material, yet 

 this very tool is of a most remarkable plan and construction, so much so 

 that for two separate and distinct tribes to hit upon the like idea is not at all 



Nicholas, Vol. n., p. 287. 



t Vol. II., p. 323. 



