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ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY LANGUAGE. 
they found a substitute in coffee ; and, therefore, naturally 
transferred the word for it to the other; the false prophet 
propagated his faith, not by the sword of the Word, but of 
steel, and wherever he went, he carried his laws and institu- 
tions with him ; to the west his faith prevailed even to the 
pillars of Hercules ; Europe itself was threatened ; its fairest 
parts fell under the sway of his followers ; the Byzantine 
throne itself was ascended, and Spain for many years was 
the abode of the Moor ; to the East it reached Central Asia, 
India, and even the remote islands of the Indian Archipelago 
and Polynesia, therefore, it is not surprising to find kahweh 
preserved in the word kava, the intoxicating beverage of the 
South Sea Islands, and their substitute for wine and coffee ; 
in New Zealand the word is found in kawa kawa, the 'piper 
excelsum, pepper tree, and perhaps in the casava of America. 
The name for a girl is Sine , but when old enough to 
become a bearer of burthens, she is a wa hine } so when she 
is a mother and has to carry a child, not in her arms but 
on her shoulders, the Maori way, she is a waea , her offspring 
are wanau, and her burthens wahanga. 
Another remarkable word for its travels is Paradise. 
Every nation has pictured to itself some place of bliss, some 
abode of rest for the soul. Men vary in their idea of the 
character of that happy spot, but still the idea exists, and 
all of them are included between the extremes of the sensual 
paradise of Mahomet, and the spiritual and holy one of the 
Christian ; the word paradise itself conveys the idea of a 
garden enclosed, a garden of delights ; it is the place of re- 
pose, protected from every foe, no enemy can enter, or dis- 
turb the rest of the soul ; the Hebrew word is pardes ; the 
Arabic jirdaus , plural faradisa ; Syriac and Armenian partes ; 
Sanscrit pradisa , or paradisa, a circuit or district ; firdusi , 
Persian, a pleasure garden ; TrapaSewros, an enclosed garden, 
it is seen in the English words park , pale, and parapet ; and 
is preserved in parae, Maori for a small plain enclosed with 
forest. The simple root of all these words appears to be Pa, 
to obstruct, hence Taie-pa and Pa-korokoro , are fences for 
farms ; Parepare a fortification for towns ; pare, to ward off. 
