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ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY LANGUAGE. 
English. Malay . 
Sky. Langit. 
Stone. Batu. 
Bird. Mutah, mennk. 
The final k in Malay is often mute.- 
New Zealand. 
Rangi. 
Kohatu, kowatu. 
Manu. 
-The consonants b, d, may 
have the intervening vowel, 
a, e, i, o, or u, changed at pleasure. 
The resemblance between the New Zealanders and the 
natives of the Society and Sandwich Isles is still more ob- 
servable, and, perhaps, of all islands, the little one of Waiho, 
or Easter Island, is the most perfect ; it appears highly 
probable that some of its inhabitants found their way to 
New Zealand, and remarkable that the spot which they 
would be most likely to make by the prevailing current in 
reaching New Zealand should be called Waiho,* the name 
of their isle. Easter Island also seems to have become the 
abode of the progenitors of the Polynesian race before it had 
lost some of its original knowledge of the arts. The large 
stone monuments still existing there speak of a bygone 
skill, and, perhaps, of acquaintance with the use of iron ; 
the form, too, of the covering of the heads of those figures 
bears a remarkable resemblance to some seen in Egyptian 
hieroglyphics, especially of that supposed to refer to Shi- 
shak's victory over Rehoboam. It is evident the New 
Zealanders, from their own account, did not all come either 
at the same time, from the same place, or to the same part 
of the island :f the peculiar difference of dialect still existing 
amongst the tribes would, to the skilful Polynesian philo- 
* Waiho, also a name of one of the Sandwich Islands, signifying to leave or 
abandon. 
f This is clearly seen in the variation of names which we find in different 
parts of the island, which evidently, proves, that each emigration gave them 
according to the impressions formed on first landing. Thus, in the 
North Kukupa is in the South Keriru , a pigeon. — Kuku, pigeons pre- 
Tui 
Tupakihi 
Kapura 
Paua 
Tomae rangi 
[served in their own fat. 
Koko A bird. 
Tutu , Coriaria sarmentosa. 
A hi, Fire. 
Hau , Smoke. 
Hau nui. Dew and showers. 
Nearly all the trees differ in their names ; thus in the North the phormium 
tenax is called korari ; in the South, that is the name of the flower stalk 
