[185] In the numerous works referring to the Indian Archipelago, this word is sometimes written _kanary_ or _kanarie_.
[186] Miklouho-Maclay in Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W. Vol. X., p. 349.
[187] Crawfurd’s “Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language.”
[188] “Journal of the Indian Archipelago.” Vol. II., p. 695 (1848).
[189] Miklouho-Maclay Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W. Vol. X., p. 349.
[190] Miklouho-Maclay (Ibid., p. 353, 357).
[192] By an easy transition from _gâtah_ through _katari_ to _kauri_ we have the probable origin of the native name of the resin-yielding “Dammara australis” (Kauri Pine) of New Zealand.
[193] Miklouho-Maclay in Proc. Lin. Soc., N.S.W. Vol. X., p. 348.
The term _Uri_, which is applied in a slightly altered form to different fruits in the Melanesian Islands, would seem to be derived from the Indian Archipelago. Proceeding westward from the Banks Group where _Ur_ is the name of the fruit of “Spondias dulcis,” we find that in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands _Ure_ is a designation for fruit. In the neighbouring islands of Bougainville Straits, several species of “Ficus” and their fruits receive the name of _Uri_. To the westward of the Solomon Islands we come upon the same term in the Mafoor of New Guinea, where the breadfruit is known as _Ur_. Lastly, in the island of Ceram in the Indian Archipelago, the fruit of the banana is called _Uri_.[194]
[194] I am mainly indebted to Dr. Codrington’s “Melanesian Languages” for the distribution of this term.
On this unequivocal evidence of one of the sources of the languages of the islands of Bougainville Straits it is unnecessary to dilate. It should, however, be remembered that other words are distinctly Polynesian in their origin, and must be sought for in the languages of the Pacific groups. Thus, whilst _numa_, the word for “house,” finds its counterpart in the Malay _rumah_ and the Javanese _uma_, _fale-fale_, which also signifies a house, is the _vale_ of the New Hebrides (Lepers Island and Aurora Island), the _vale_ of Fiji, the _fale_ of Samoa and Tonga, and the _whare_ of the Maori. According to Dr. Codrington, these two words signifying a house, _fale_ and _ruma_, with their various forms, have an interesting distribution. The first belongs to the eastern Pacific, and the second to the western Pacific; but they overlap in the intermediate districts as in the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands. It is, however, significant that both these words should be included in the language of Bougainville Straits.