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ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY THE LANGUAGE. 
Wesleyan Missionary stationed at Mere (Rev.Mr. Hazlewood). 
The spirit of the still-born child is very much feared. 
Makutu, or witchcraft, is practised in a similar way to that 
of the Maori, by procuring some of the parings of the food 
which the person to be destroyed has eaten ; these are buried, 
and as they decay, the victim also pines away and dies. 
Langi , heaven ( rangi , New Zealand), literally the place 
where the heaven and the earth unite, or the distant horizon, 
from whence the European was thought to come, it being con¬ 
sidered his remote home, and therefore he is called papa-langi, 
or the person who comes from the surface of heaven. 
Vto, the bread fruit, is also the heart. New Zealand uri , 
ufi, or uwi, the yam ; ndalo ; talo (Tonga), taro (New Zealand), 
the edible species of the arum. The word koli agrees with 
the New Zealand kuri (dog). 
Circumcision universally obtains in the Feegee Isles. There 
is a rite nearly approaching to it in New Zealand, called the 
putete, which consists in tying up the prepuce with a string, 
and then fastening the end of it to the girdle; this was done 
when on a journey or going to fight. 
Thake means above, as the sun or the east, as ake does in 
Tonga and New Zealand. 
Ra , down below, as the sun raro, New Zealand. In Feegee 
it is the west, in New Zealand the north. 
Toka lau, the north, is tokarau, which is north-east in New 
Zealand. 
Kan, the plural prefix, is used ordinarily for men ; kau 
matua, elders; and how is the plural for chiefs and gods, 
j Fango is the plural for animals. Ngahi, for inanimate objects. 
Origa is the dual prefix before animals. 
Iro, to peep, is the same as tiro in New Zealand. Dalinga , 
the ear, agrees with the New Zealand taringa. 
The following words were taken from a list of Malayan 
dialects, as spoken in Borneo :— 
English. Malay. New Zealand. 
Two. 
Three 
Five. 
Dua. 
Tiga, taru. 
Lima, rimch. 
Dua, rua. 
Toru. 
Kima. 
