64 ON THE OEIGIN AT^^D MIGEATIONS OF THE POLYNESIAN NATION. 



Three 



Pa 



Four 



Pake 



Five 



Atal 



Six 



Nerkua 



Seven 



Kugule 



Eight 



Pavaga 



Nine 



Pakewake 



De Zuniga also observes, in the passage of his work which I 

 have already quoted, that " the proper names of places, about the 

 middle of the continent of South America, are very similar to 

 those of the Philippines." 



The following are a few of these names of places in South 

 America having a Polynesian aspect: — Peru, Quito (Kito), 

 Gruatimala (Katimala), Arica, Loa, Titicaca, Panama, Huayna, 

 Chili, Caicara, (Kaikara), Alahualpa, Tiahuanacu, Arequipa 

 (Arekipa), Gruarohiri (Karohiri), Huanuco, Lima, Tarapaca, 

 Gruana Xato (Kanahato), &c. The same Polynesian character 

 of the language also holds in regard to persons even in Mexico. 

 Por example, the Mexican reverential affix tzin or azin, which 

 was always added to the names of princes, is in all likelihood 

 the Indo-Chinese affix, asyane, signifying lord, if not rather the 

 Chinese word tsin. In the list of Mexican kings who reigned 

 previous to the era of the Spanish conquest we find the names of 

 Nopal-tzin, Ho-tzin, Quina-tzin (Kina-tzin), Cacoma-tzin, 

 Cuicuitzca-tzin, Coanaco-tzin, Montezuma-tzin, Gruatimozin (Ka- 

 Tima-tzin). Several of these proper names have a remarkable 

 resemblance to modern Polynesian names ; the last especially — the 

 name of the unfortunate prince whom the Spaniards extended 

 over a fire of coals to compel him to inform them where he had 

 hidden his treasures — that name is, when stripped of its Spanish 

 doublet and its reverential affix, a pure New Zealand name. 



When we reach the northern continent, however, in which 

 the movement of nations, wars, and conquests would seem to have 

 been much more frequent than in the South, the Polynesian or 

 vocalic character of the language disappears, and we meet with 

 combinations of consonants of a really formidable character, 

 altogether unlike the speech of Polynesia. The Aztecks, or 

 modern Mexicans, who had overrun the Mexican territory from 

 the northward, and whose tenth king, Montezuma, was the 

 reigning monarch at the era of the Spanish invasion, ascribed the 

 erection of the famous pyramid of Teotihuacan to the Toltecks, 

 a tribe of kindred origin and language, who had also overrun 

 Mexico, five hundred years before the Azteck conquest ; but 

 they did so simply because their chronology, which, like that of 

 many other conquering tribes, overlooked the records and tradi- 

 tions of the vanquished people, did not extend any higher than 

 the era of the migration and conquests of the northern tribes. 



