166 GENERAL ACCOUNT OF SOUTH SEA ISLANDS cu. vil 
It must be remembered, however, that the author of this 
voyage, during the course of it, touched at Java and several 
other East Indian Isles, as well as at Madagascar; so that if 
by any disarrangement of his papers he has given the numerals 
of some of those islands for those of Madagascar, our wonder 
will be much diminished ; for after having traced them from 
Otahite to New Guinea it would not seem very wonderful 
to carry them a little farther to the East Indian Isles, which 
from their situation seem not unlikely to be the place from 
whence our islanders originally came. But I shall waive 
saying any more on this subject till I have had an opportunity 
of myself seeing the customs, etc. of the Javans, which this 
voyage will in all probability give me an opportunity of doing. 
The language of all the islands I was upon was the same, 
so far as I could understand it; the people of Ulhietea only 
changed the ¢ of the Otahiteans to 4h, calling ¢ata, which 
signifies a man or woman, kaka, a peculiarity which made 
the language much less soft. The people of Oheteroa, so far 
as I could understand their words, which were only shouted 
out to us, seemed to do the same thing, and add many more 
consonants, which made their language much less musical. 
I shall give a few of the words, from whence an idea may 
be got of their language. 
Eupo the head Oboo the belly 
Ahewh the nose Rema the arm 
Roourou the hair Aporema the hand 
Outou the mouth Manneow the fingers 
Nihéo the teeth Mieu the nails 
Arrero the tongue Touhe the buttocks 
Meu-Eumi the beard Hoouhah the thighs 
Tiarraboa the throat Mae fat 
Tuamo the shoulders Huru-puru hair 
Tuah the back Eraou a tree 
Aoai the legs Ama a branch 
Tapoa the feet Tiale a, flower 
Booa a hog Huero fruit 
Moa a fowl Etummoo the stem 
Eurée a dog Aaa the root 
Euré-eure iron Eiherre herbaceous plants 
Qoroo bread-fruit Oboopa a pigeon 
Hearee cocoanuts Avigne a parroquet 
Mia bananas Aa another species 
Vae wild plantains Mannu a bird 
Ooma the breast Mora a duck 
Eu the nipples Mattow a fish-hook 
