420 SIDNEY H. RAY. 
A COMPARISON or tue LANGUAGES or PONAPE 
anp HAWAITI. : 
By the late Rev. E. T. Doane; 
With additional notes and illustrations by Srpney H. Ray, 
Memb. Anthrop. Inst., London. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, September 5, 1894.] 
Contents oF Parr [ 
1. Introduction. 6. La directive. 
2. Sounds. 7. Prepositions. 
3. Syllables. Nouns. 
4. Accent. 9. Adjectives. 
5. O emphatic. 
Contents oF Part II. 
10. Numerals. 14. Verbal directives. 
11. Pronouns. 15. Syntax. 
12. V 16. Comparative Vocabulary. 
13. Participles. 
Part I. 
[This paper was sent to me by the Rev. C. M. Hyde, D.D., of 
the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in Honolulu. It was 
written by the late Rev. E. T. Doane, who was for many years & 
missionary of the American Board of Congregational Foreign 
Missions, not only in the Caroline Islands, but also in the Marshall 
Islands. Referring as the notes do, to a portion of the Oceanic 
world which is comparatively little known, they will probably be 
found of some value. Mr. Doane’s language has in a few instances 
been abridged, but without in any way altering the views he has 
set forth. My own additions are in every case inserted either 
within square brackets or as foot-notes. Quotations from Alex- 
ander’s Hawaiian grammar are distinguished by inverted commas. 
§ 1. Inrropvction. ‘ 
Ponape is one of the most important islands of the Micronesia2 
Archipelago. It claims this eminence not in population or 8° 
