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the domesticated state, may, then, once have existed in some of them, 
in the wild one, and, as in other countries, been exterminated in 
tiie progress of population. The hog and common fowl in the wild 
state are certainly found in some of the Malay islands much smaller 
than Tahiti or Owaii, from which, at the same time, the large qua¬ 
drupeds, the ox, the buffalo, the rhinoceros, and the tiger are ex¬ 
cluded. 
Still, it must he admitted that this branch of the subject is full of 
difficulties. The Sandwich Islands, to the north of the, equator, had 
the hog, the dog, and common fowl, while the Marianne group, al¬ 
so to the north of the line, and by 50° of longitude nearer to the 
Archipelago, had neither the hog nor dog, and probably not even 
the common fowl. On the other hand, the common fowl, in the 
wild, but not the domesticated state, was found in the Pelew Islands, 
- on the same side of the equator.* 
The objections to the hypothesis which Eonv ave maintained that 
the hog may have been introduced by European shipping, in com¬ 
paratively modern times, are, — that there is no record of any such 
event down to the time of Cook—that the varieties of the animals 
in question are different from any known European varieties — that 
they are the same throughout—that the names of the animals are 
neither European, nor have reference to an European or other for¬ 
eign origin as is the case with the animals since introduced by Eu¬ 
ropeans ; but that, on the contrary, they are native, and the same 
throughout, wherever the Polynesian language is spoken, New Zea¬ 
land alone excepted, in so far as concerns one animal, the dog. 
The Marianne Islands, when discovered, were found destitute of 
nearly all the domesticated animals. The Spaniards introduced the 
ox, the horse, the ass, deer, goats, the dog, the hog, and the cat, 
some of which have since returned to a state of nature. Here we 
have evidence of foreign, and even of European introduction. The 
cat is called Icelo or gheto , evidently a corruption of the Castilian 
gato ; and the dog is called by a compound epithet, meaning “ for- 
•* Freycinet, voyage autour du Monde; Wilson’s Account of the Pelew 
Islands. 
