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is identical with the English word parry. A temple in Ceylon 
is Dagoba , in India Pagoda, and amongst the South Sea 
Island Fytoka ; in Burmah Watetoka, which in New Zealand 
is the door of a chief’s house. 
The name for the cocoa palm in most of the isles of Poly- 
nesia is ni ; in the Brumer isles, niu, which signifies the tree 
producing milk, ni the name for a palm tree, and u milk, that 
is, the cocoa nut ; in those isles it is spun round in divination, 
in New Zealand, where there are no cocoa nuts, the practice 
of divining by rods was adopted instead, for which the term 
niu was used, a clear proof of its having been brought from 
the tropical homes of their forefathers. The name uwhi or 
ufi , the yam of the South Sea Islands, is given to a small 
one that is indigenous to New Zealand, and to the root of a 
fern (marattia elegansj, which is also edible, and slightly 
resembling the yam ; uri, the fruit of the kiekie, the largest 
New Zealand fruit, is also the name of the bread fruit ; 
ti ( dracena AustralisJ is a name common to all the isles ; 
it produces a long fleshy tap-root like a carrot, which 
was formerly much used as food. Nearly all the names 
of edible substances are identical with those of the islands ; 
the taro , kumara, hue, many of the Maori trees which re- 
semble those of the isles they left, bear the same names, 
such as the alia, hutu, mai, miro, rata, and wau. Poi 
is the New Zealand word for a ball, this in Tahaiti is also 
the name of the bread fruit when made up into balls. This 
valuable tree is not known in the colder climate of New 
Zealand, but the word remains. 
The pigeon has two names, the kuku and kukupa, which 
are common to the isles; so also the ruru, owl; the More , 
rat, and kuri, dog, the only animals there known have simi- 
tar names ; the kuku, mussel, a shell-fish universally eaten, 
has generally the same name; but it is not necessary to 
carry this list further; it applies to plants, stones, insects, 
implements, manners, customs, mythology, gods, in fact, to 
everything, for the language itself is radically the same, and 
clearly shows that the Polynesians form one grand family, 
whilst it is evident, the greater or less variation existing 
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