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ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY LANGUAGE. 
logist, point out almost the precise locality from whence 
each came. 
The Maori preserve the use of the h and ng ; their ancestors 
have lost them; thus were the Anglo- Australians to he en- 
tirely cut off from the parent stock for several centuries, it is 
reasonable to suppose that changes quite equal to these would 
take place in the language ; but that the offset should pre- 
serve the original purity of their tongue is most remarkable. 
Hawaii is still the name of the largest of the Sandwich Isles, 
it only wants the h , this the New Zealander called *Hawaihi 
tawiti nui , or the very distant Hawaiki ; thence they came to 
Hawaihi pat a, or nearer Hawaiki, literally the lesser isle, 
being smaller than Hawaiki, that is Tahaiti ; and having re- 
mained there until their numbers were too large for the size 
of the island, they again migrated to Hawaihi i te moutere ; 
supposing this to have been Easter Island, which is situ- 
ated at the end of the south-east trade winds, there is a 
very natural and easy course to Coromandel Harbour, New 
Zealand, which, as we have already remarked, bears the 
same name as that of Easter Isle ; all their traditions state 
they came from the East : here, then, native memory has 
preserved the recollection of three several removes, how 
many more may have been forgotten ? 
At Parapara , a small native viliage on the road from 
Kaitaia to Doubtless Bay, there resided (1840) an intelligent 
old chief, named Hahahai, a tohunga deeply versed in the 
only, the plant itself is harakeke ; so also the names of address vary in differ- 
ent parts : the Nga. puhi say E koro , or E mar a ; those in the South laugh 
at it, there they say, E tama , or E hoa ; and in the more central part 
of the island, it is E pa ; in fact, a remarkable instance of this difference has 
occurred in recent times : when that valuable tuber, the potatoe, was intro- 
duced by Captain Cook, and given in the North, the natives there called it 
kapana ; in the Thames, where he also left it, they named it riwai ; and in 
the South, or Cook’s Straits, it goes by the name of Taewa ; still later, the 
hen was called in one part a heihei , in another a tikaokao ; so the horse was a 
hoiho , and also a kuri, or big dog, that being the only animal they were then 
acquainted with. 
* I Kunemai i Hawaiki, The seed of our coming is from Ha- 
waiki. 
Te kune kai te kune tangata, The seed of food, the seed of man. 
