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1777. mark of refpefl to Latoolibooloo; but we have obferved 
c , him leave off eating, and have his victuals put afide, when 
the latter came into the fame houfe. Latoolibooloo affiimed 
the privilege of taking any thing from the people, even if 
it belonged to the king; and yet, in the ceremony called 
Natc/je, he abided only in the fame manner as the other 
principal men. He was looked upon, by his countrymen, 
as a madman ; and many of his actions feemed to confirm 
this judgment. At Eooa, they fhewed me a good deal of 
land, faid to belong to him ; and I law there a fon of his, 
a child, whom they didinguifhed by the fame title as his 
father. The fon of the greateii Prince in Europe could 
not be more humoured and careffed than this little Tam- 
mah a was. 
The language of the Friendly Illands, has the greateii 
affinity imaginable to that of New Zealand, of Wateeoo, 
and Mangeea; and, confequently, to that of Otaheite, and 
the Society Illands. There are alfo many of their words 
the fame with thofe ufed by the natives of Cocos Illand, as 
appears from the vocabulary collected there by Le Maire 
and Schouten A The mode of pronunciation differs, indeed, 
confiderably, in many infiances, from that both of New 
* See this vocabulary, at the end of Vol. ii. of Dalrymple’s Colle&ion of Voyages. 
And yet, though Tafman’s people ufed the words of this vocabulary, in fpeaking to 
the natives of Tongataboo (his Amfterdam), we are told, in the accounts of his voyage, 
that they did not underftand one another. A circumftance worth obferving, as it 
fhews how cautious we fhould be, upon the fcanty evidence afforded by fuch tranfient 
vifits as Tafman’s, and, indeed, as thofe of moft of the fublequent navigators of the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, to found any argument about the affinity, or want of affinity, of the languages 
of the different iflands. No one, now, will venture to fay, that a Cocos man, and one 
of Tongataboo, could not underftand each other. Some of the words of Horn fland, 
another of Schouten’s difcoveries, alfo belong to the dialedi of Tongataboo. See Dal- 
rpnple, as above. 
Zealand, 
