Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0465
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Manners & Customs of the South Sea Islands
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That the people who inhabit this numerous range of Isles should have originaly come from one & the same place & brought with the [them] the same numbers & Language which latter especialy have remaind to this time not materialy alterd is in my opinion not at all past beleif but that the Numbers of the Island of Madagascar should be the same as all these is almost if not quite beyond beleif incredible I shall give them from a book calld a Collection of voyages by the Duch East India Company Lond. 1703. p. 116, where supposing the author Who speaks of ten numbers & has only nine to have lost the fifth their similarity is beyond dispute
Madagascar | Otahite | Cocos Isle | New Guinea | |
1. | Issa | Tahie | Taci | Tika |
2. | Rove | Rua | Loua | Roa |
3. | Tello | Torou | Tolou | Tola |
4. | Effat | Nêa | Fa | Fatta |
6. | Enning | Whene | Houno | Wamma |
7. | Fruto | Hetu | Fitou | Fita |
8. | Wedo | Whêaru | Walou | Walla |
9. | Sidai | Heva | Ywou | Siwa |
10. | Scula | Ahourou | Ongefoula | Sangafoula |
It must be rememberd however that the author of this voyage during the course of it touchd at Java & several more of the East Indian Isles