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affinity of words. 
uniform kindness they had received, it made such an im¬ 
pression in favor of Englishmen, as never to be since erased 
from their memory. 
The natives of the north, above Kaitaia, state, that the first 
wheat which was sowed in the island was by Governor Kiug, 
at Kapo Wairua, where he first landed. 
In all languages, some words may be found which resemble 
those in another ; this, of course, is the case with those tongues 
which have derived much either from neighbouring countries, 
or in common with them from some more ancient tongue; as 
is the case with most of the European languages. 
But when this resemblance or identity of words, exists in 
such a remote and isolated race as the Maori, and that too 
with European tongues, then we can only account for it by 
supposing that there is a natural tendency in the human race 
to adopt the same symbols ; a natural unity of thought, arising 
from causes common to all. For an example, when poultry 
were first introduced into New Zealand, they immediately gave 
it a name from its crow, ti kao kao, as our ancestors did when 
they called it the cock: one people deriving its name from the 
crow, the other from its cluck. So with the duck, which is 
most likely so called from its quack ; the natives adopting the 
same sound to the idiom of their language, call it rake rake, 
which is nothing more than quack quack. 
In fact, all the birds of New Zealand are named from their 
notes, and this seems quite natural. When our settlers first 
reached New Zealand, they fancied that the cry of the owl 
resembled the words more pork, and more pork they all call 
it. The natives of the north fancy its note resembles the 
word kou-kou , and that is its name there : in the south, they 
think it sounds like ru-ru, and so it is called. But although 
in this instance there is so much difference, yet in many others 
there may be a remarkable resemblance of thought, and we 
may meet with similar words in most remote languages, which 
are evidently derived from sound; thus, in New Zealand, the 
beautiful word ha-ru-ru is taken from the shaking or vibratory 
sound of water, the noise of the surf; ha, is the breath, and 
