﻿J. 
  T. 
  Thomson. 
  — 
  On 
  Barat 
  or 
  Barata 
  Fossil 
  YVords. 
  157 
  

  

  traditions.' 
  If 
  furnished 
  with 
  the 
  necessary 
  philological 
  and 
  ethnological 
  

   materials 
  I 
  might 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  indicate 
  the 
  early 
  history 
  of 
  your 
  island." 
  

  

  Postscript 
  by 
  Professor 
  von 
  Haast. 
  

   It 
  is 
  scarcely 
  necessary 
  to 
  point 
  out 
  the 
  important 
  nature 
  of 
  this 
  

   communication, 
  which 
  opens 
  up 
  quite 
  a 
  new 
  field 
  for 
  research 
  into 
  the 
  

   early 
  history 
  of 
  these 
  islands, 
  and 
  goes 
  far 
  to 
  prove 
  the 
  great 
  antiquity 
  of 
  

   the 
  paintings 
  in 
  question. 
  In 
  reference 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Cameron's 
  views, 
  I 
  may, 
  

   however, 
  be 
  allowed 
  to 
  observe 
  that 
  these 
  red 
  paintings 
  have 
  evidently 
  all 
  

   been 
  executed 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time, 
  and 
  cannot 
  therefore 
  represent 
  two 
  distinct 
  

   periods, 
  or 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  two 
  distinct 
  races. 
  In 
  stating 
  in 
  the 
  post- 
  

   script 
  to 
  my 
  address 
  that 
  when 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  antiquity 
  of 
  these 
  

   paintings, 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  do 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  European 
  sense, 
  but 
  only 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  there 
  

   were 
  existing 
  reliable 
  traditions 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  Native 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  these 
  

   islands, 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  wish 
  to 
  give 
  any 
  expression 
  as 
  to 
  my 
  views 
  of 
  Avhat 
  the 
  

   real 
  age 
  of 
  these 
  paintings 
  might 
  be. 
  Before 
  doing 
  so 
  I 
  wished 
  to 
  obtain 
  

   more 
  material. 
  However, 
  anybody 
  acquainted 
  with 
  my 
  own 
  views 
  in 
  

   regard 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  years 
  these 
  islands 
  have 
  been 
  inhabited, 
  and 
  

   the 
  long 
  period 
  of 
  time 
  since 
  the 
  Moa 
  has 
  become 
  extinct 
  through 
  the 
  

   agency 
  of 
  man, 
  of 
  which 
  we 
  have 
  ample 
  geological 
  evidence 
  (the 
  only 
  one 
  

   to 
  be 
  trusted), 
  will 
  easily 
  understand 
  that 
  I 
  can 
  only 
  coincide 
  with 
  Mr. 
  

   Cameron's 
  opinion 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  antiquity 
  of 
  the 
  paintings 
  in 
  question, 
  

   even 
  in 
  the 
  European 
  sense. 
  

  

  Art. 
  XV. 
  — 
  Barat 
  or 
  Barata 
  Fossil 
  Words. 
  By 
  J. 
  Turnbull 
  Thomson, 
  

   F.E.G.S., 
  P.E.S.S.A., 
  etc. 
  

  

  Plate 
  IV. 
  

  

  [Read 
  before 
  the 
  Wellington 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  February, 
  1879.] 
  

   This 
  continues 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  three 
  preceding 
  papers*, 
  and 
  the 
  heading 
  

   requires 
  some 
  explanation. 
  Barat 
  is 
  the 
  Malay 
  traditional 
  and 
  poetical 
  

   name 
  for 
  Hindustan, 
  and 
  to 
  this 
  day 
  they 
  speak 
  of 
  the 
  angin 
  Barat 
  — 
  that 
  

   is, 
  westerly, 
  or 
  wind 
  of 
  Barat; 
  as 
  they 
  do 
  of 
  the 
  angin 
  Jawa 
  — 
  that 
  is, 
  the 
  

   southerly, 
  or 
  wind 
  of 
  Java. 
  Barata, 
  or 
  Bharata, 
  is 
  the 
  ancient 
  term 
  for 
  

   their 
  country 
  by 
  the 
  natives 
  of 
  Hindustan. 
  In 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  Madagascar, 
  

   allowing 
  for 
  difference 
  of 
  phonology, 
  precisely 
  the 
  same 
  word 
  is 
  used 
  for 
  

   the 
  North, 
  viz., 
  avaratra, 
  whose 
  winds 
  wafted 
  commerce 
  from 
  the 
  parent 
  

   country, 
  viz.. 
  South 
  India. 
  We 
  use 
  the 
  term 
  parent 
  on 
  the 
  force 
  of 
  the 
  

   facts 
  elicited 
  in 
  our 
  preceding 
  investigations. 
  

  

  * 
  Whence 
  of 
  the 
  Maori, 
  Trans. 
  N. 
  Z. 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  IV. 
  ; 
  Barata 
  Numerals, 
  Vol. 
  V. 
  ; 
  

   Philological 
  Considerations 
  on 
  the 
  Whence 
  of 
  the 
  Maori, 
  Vol. 
  VI. 
  

  

  