26 INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



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 of the language of Efate, London, 1894; Hazlewood, D., A Feejeean and English Dic- 

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 1893 ; Williams, W. L-, A Diclionary of the New Zealand Language, 4th ed., Auck- 

 land, 1892; Crawfurd, J., A Grammar and Diclionary of the Malay Language, Lon- 

 don, 1852; Gaussin, Dialect de Tahiti, de celui des Lies Marquises, et en general de la 

 langue Polynesienne, Paris, 1853; Bopp, F, Verwandschaft der malayische-polynesische 

 Sprachen mit den indisch-europaischen, Berlin, 1840. 



The illustrative sentence I have chosen is the invocation of the Lord's prayer, 

 "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." — Mattheiv vi, 9. 



Hawaiian — E ko makou Makua iloko o ka lani, i hoanoia kou inoa. 

 Maori — E to matou Matua i te rangi, kia tapu ton ingoa. 

 Tahitian — E to matou Metua i te ao ra, ia raa to oe i'oa. 

 Tonga// — Ko e man Tamai oku i he lagi, ke tabuha ho huafa. 

 Rarotongan — E to matou Metua i te ao ra, Kia tapu toou ingoa. 

 Samoan — Lo matou Tama e o i le lagi, ia paia lou suafa. 

 Rapanui — To matou Matua noho rangi e, ka tapu to koe ingoa. 



Fiji — Tama i keimami mai lomalagi Me vakarokorokotaki na yacamu. 



Aneiteum — Ak Etamama an nohatag, Etmu itaup nidam. 



Erromanga — Itemen e kam unpokop, eti tumpora nin enugkik. 



( 'ca — Kamomun etho nyi drany, E so e kap iam. 



Mart — Cecewangoiehnij'ile ri awe ke! Hmijoeengo ko re acekiwangoieni buango. 



Li fit — Tetetro i anganyihunieti e kohoti hnengodrai, jiniati e hmitote la atesiwa i enetilai. 



Motu — Ai Tamamai guba ai noho, oi ladamu baine ahelagaia. 



Gilbert Islands — Tamara are i karawa, E na tabuaki aram. 



Mortlock — le ojon ami an pue iotok : Jam at me nono Ian. 



Rotuma — Ko otomis Oifa tae e lagi, La re titiaki se 011 asa. 



K/tsaie — Papa tumus su in kosao, E'los oal payi. 



Ebon — Jememuij i Ion, En kwojarjar Etom. 



Pot/ape — Jam at me kotikot naloh, mwar omwi en kakanaki er. (Old version.) 



Ponapk — Jam at me kotikot nalan, Mmar omui en Jaraui ta. (New version.) 



Religion. — As has already been said the Polynesians were a religious people 

 and their theogonv was much the same on all the groups. The attributes of the gods 

 differed widely, and the forms of worship as well. On the Hawaiian Group Maui, 

 Kane and Lono were the great trinity while their subordinates were reckoned by the 

 40,000 and the 400,000. Images were in demand and an odd beach-worn pebble would 



serve where the more elaborate carvings could not easily be obtained. Every guild 



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