6th. In Maori, the past participle is formed by adding tia, ria, kia, etc., to the verb, resembling the similar terminations in English, German, Latin, etc., in d, t, atus, etus, etc.

7th. In Maori, ordinal numerals are formed by prefixing to the cardinals tua, which originally, no doubt, meant number (from the same root as tátau, to count), as proved by its equivalent in Samoan, toa, meaning also in that dialect, number.

In Sanskrit, ordinals are formed by affixing the superlative form tama, or modifications of it, to the cardinals. The same principle is observed in the other Indo-European languages, as—Greek to, Latin tu, Gothic and Anglo- Saxon ta, and English th. Now, as the superlative degree really carries the essential idea of number, it is very probable that the Sanskrit tama and the other forms adduced were originally derived from a root signifying number; very likely the identical one from which the Maori tua and Samoan toa are derived.

These are the principal points. Many more minor ones might be brought forward, but the doing so would take too much space.

The Maori, I believe, will be found upon examination also to contain many old Egyptian and Arabic words, and I think it is a mistake to class it as belonging to the Turanian group of languages. It is rather a mixture of the Indo-European and Semitic.

The very name Maori points most significantly to the stock from which the race has been derived. This idea first struck me about seven years ago, and a friend of mine lately, without knowing the fact, stated that some time back the same thought had also occurred to him. Lately, after reading books of ancient travels, voyages, etc., I am almost confirmed in the opinion that the names Maori of New Zealand, Mori-ori of the Chatham Islands, Malay (more properly Malai), etc., etc., are but modifications of the same word as Moor in English, and the Mauri of the Romans;—those Mauri who carried into Spain the words like Maori, quoted in Thompson's Story of New Zealand.

I am not quite sure, but I believe that the name Malay is supposed to be connected with Malacea. But I think Malacca, or Malaka, simply means east. Marangai means east in Maori, named so, no doubt, from its being the quarter of the sun's rising—áranga means rising, and maránga means to arise; this would be pronounced maráka in some parts of New Zealand, almost identical with the name of the Malayan Peninsula. The Maori is the same fierce cross between the Arab and Ethiopian that the Moor was, with a further modification in the shape of the ancient Persian element.

Philologists have been puzzled to account for the name Moors being applied to the languages of the southern coasts of Asia, but I believe the true explanation is the foregoing one, and that there has been nothing arbitrary in the matter. It is simply the voice of tradition that has been followed.