70 SISSANO. 
in Samoan) is now rare and written in a language unfamiliar to the 
Cambridge scholar, it is certain that he had no acquaintance with the 
work of his predecessor. I translate from the Samoan the following 
statement. It is clear that Powell, a trained naturalist as well as 
missionary, had not himself seen the Samoan pig, but he had the 
opportunity to obtain the description from the older Samoans, who 
could point out the differences between the introduced hog and that 
with which they were familiar before the coming of Sus scrofa. 
There was formerly in Samoa another hog whose name was the alou. It 
is likely that this hog was brought from some land in Asia by the Samoan 
chiefs who first touched at these islands. ‘This animal resembled the China 
hog. Its body was rounded, dark colored, and pretty. Its head was rather 
short, its legs short, its ears somewhat small; it was very tame. It is a long 
time since this hog has been seen in Samoa. Probably it was made extinct 
in the feasts celebrating the establishment of the kingdom of Jesus to which 
the Samoans flocked in great numbers. (Thomas Powell: ‘O le Tala i Tino 
o Tagata ma Mea Ola ‘Ese‘ese, 230.) 
We shall recur to this suggestion of introduction made by Powell 
and by Rivers after the examination of the linguistic material for the 
discovery of such evidence as it may bring to bear upon the theme. 
In a former work (The Polynesian Wanderings, 428) I discussed the 
linguistics of this group of words upon material considerably less com- 
plete than is now available. ‘Therefore the present note is intended to 
replace the earlier comment, for the material is now examined de novo. 
From that former note I wish to repeat the statement that the sug- 
gested derivation of Polynesian puaka through loan from English 
pork is wholly untenable; it would be quite as reasonable to suggest 
that 133 boa of the Shortland Islands is a loan from English boar. 
In ordering these words in the foregoing tabular arrangement I have 
discovered certain classes, and these classes I have set in succession 
by reason of the appearance of development, upward or downward 
as the case may be; but for the present I must reserve the important 
point of evolution suggested by this arrangement. ‘These classes in 
Melanesia and the items involved are the following: 

A. Polynesian (puaka) type 1- 2 | H. labial-liquid-palatal 81-85 
B. labial-palatal-sibilant 3- 9 | I. labial-liquid 86-87 
C. labial-palatal 10-17 | J. labial-sibilant 88-91 
D. labial-liquid dissyllable 18-46 | K. labial—m 92-98 
E. labial-liquid monosyllable 47-60 | L. labial 99-114 
F. labial-(2 vowels)-liquid 61-70 | M. labial duplicated 115-118 
G. labial-liquid—m 71-80 | N. labial (2 vowels) 119-139 
These variants group themselves around the forms puaka, pakasi, 
boro, and bo, and we shall first examine the forms which appear asso- 
ciable with each of these four standards. 
puaka type——This is standard throughout Polynesia, it occurs in 
Rapanui, where the pig was unknown, or, more accurately stated, had 
not been included in the migration which peopled Easter Island. In 
