ETHIfOLQIlT OF THE THDO^-f ACIFIO ISLANDS. 151 





Toro (Salomon la.) 



lo 



Eromango 



i-ariia 



Vate {= Gebe] 



biri 





pisri 



UtatiatA 



luari-nJi wai 



Australiau 





tf 



mara-gaii 



It 



war-gai 



tt 



is 



ILrubf Masid, Pt.Lrhu 



kuerc 



Vanikoro 



donie 



Saumali 









Danakil 



rati/ 



Andt (ihip) 



adaw/e 



Arabic „ 





ft n 





Samoiede 



oddu 



tt 



anUi 



it 



anu 



tt 



al 



Yftkutt 



The form in is is a common Samotede one, and the Indo-Euro- 

 pean naUf navt$ &c. appears to show that it is an archaic variety. 

 The Indo-European word is more immediately connected with the 

 Andi and Arabic form rau, dau. The Bruner Island daow, raow 

 " a catamaran is the Timor beuau, wenau " boat Yanikora 

 naue, Tuanlu (New Ca!>) nayu, " boat/' The Australian nawai 

 may either be the same term, or the Waigiu wai^ Port Do re ua or 

 wa, New Caledonian uang. Dau, i-au, nau may be remnanta of a 

 once common Indonesian term of archaic Semitic origin like 

 the Tanikoro baito, " a house," and many other Asoncsian voca- 

 bles, but the Uitraindian plaung and the Arian nau conspire to 

 rendertheetymologydoiibtful. 



The New Guinea and Australian terms may bo arclmie, but they 

 have every appearance of being derivatives fiom one branch of 

 the Uitraindian languages, the Mani pur i and Yuma. If this be 



the casCitlipy form a remarkable record of the period when this 



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