ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY THE LANGUAGE. 189 
English. 
Malay. . 
New Zealand. 
Mother. 
Ma. 
Waea. 
Woman. 
Ini. 
Hine. 
Man. 
Orang. 
Tangata. 
Head. 
Kapala (caputJ. 
TJpoko. 
Ear. 
Telinga. 
Taringa. 
Eyes. 
Mata. 
Mata. 
Nose. 
Idong. 
Ihu. 
Mouth. 
Mulat. 
Mangai. 
Teeth. 
Gigi, nipun. 
Niho. 
Water. 
Ayer, ai. 
Wai. 
Dead. 
Mati mate. 
Mate. 
Eke. 
Api. 
Ahi. 
A path. 
Suntah, arau. 
Ara. 
Sky. 
Langit. 
Bangi. 
Stone. 
Batu. 
Kohatu, kowatu. 
Bird. 
Mutah, mennk. 
Manu. 
The final k in Malay is often mute.—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 
remarkable, and, perhaps, of all islands, the little one of Waiho, 
or Easter Island, is the most perfect. It appears highly pro¬ 
bable that some of its inhabitants found their way to New 
Zealand, and remarkable that the spot which they would 
be the 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 those seen in Egyp¬ 
tian hieroglyphics, especially of that supposed to refer to 
Shishak’s victory over Rehoboam. 
* Waiho, also a name of one of the Sandwich Islands, signifying to leave or 
abandon. 
