118 Origin and Migrations of tlie 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), Guarohiri (Karohiri), Huanuco, Lima, Tarapaca, 

 Guana Xato (Kanahato), &e. The same Polynesian character 

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

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

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

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

 word tzin. 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, Cuicuitza-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 

 movements 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 reign- 

 ing 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 traditions of 

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

 the migration and conquests of the northern tribes. But the 



