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1770 Kemotuaroeia. In this way at least, and no other, can I account for that island being called in the log—book Cumettiwaroweia. The same is practised by the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, only their particle, instead of ke or ko, is to or ta; their oeia is exactly the same, and, when I first began to learn the language, produced many difficulties and mistakes.