A NATIVE SCHOOL. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
LANGUAGE. 
Language must be regarded as one of the principal aids 
in discovering the origin of such a remote and isolated 
race as that of the Maori ; it is likewise an historical record 
which cannot be easily falsified ; as we recognize a friend by 
his voice, however greatly the person may be changed by 
age, or other cause, so may we identify races, however 
altered their manners, customs, and character in the long 
role of ages. 
It is one of the surest ways of ascertaining the remote 
ancestry of a people ; form and feature may change, so that 
the resemblance of those sprung from the same stock by 
frequent foreign admixture may be lost, but in language 
