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Of course it must be understood, that the investigation is circumscribed 

 by the Hmited 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 tliey 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 scan the root-words of the archaic focus of the 

 race in Ancient or Non-Aryan India. 



The deductions therefore accord with those of preceding papers. 



