. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . r Hindustan, would be extending her expeditions east and west, shebeing the great centre of trade, and, having the necessities, would also at thesame time acquire letters of her own, or borrow them from those closeneighbours. That her trade expanded, we may judge by the date of thefoundation of Tyre by those great East Indian merchants, the Phoenicians,3,120 years ago ; and that the powerful and wealthy partook of or used theirmerchandize we may judge of by the Song of Solomon, which, 2,900 years ago,celebrated the camphire of Sumat
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . r Hindustan, would be extending her expeditions east and west, shebeing the great centre of trade, and, having the necessities, would also at thesame time acquire letters of her own, or borrow them from those closeneighbours. That her trade expanded, we may judge by the date of thefoundation of Tyre by those great East Indian merchants, the Phoenicians,3,120 years ago ; and that the powerful and wealthy partook of or used theirmerchandize we may judge of by the Song of Solomon, which, 2,900 years ago,celebrated the camphire of Sumatra and the cinnamon of Ceylon, whose chiefmarts were South India. * Thus the fossil words of Barata were planted westward * Vasco da Gama, the first direct European trader to India, at the end of thefifteenth century found the stores of Cannanor, Calicut, and Cochin filled with pepper,ginger, nutmegs, cloves, etc., the produce of South India, as well as of Sumatra, Java,the Moluccas, etc. He also found a Hindoo trader on the coast of Africa, as far south as. Thomson.— Whe7ice bf the Maori. list in Madagascar over 3,400 yeaiS ago. Tlie date of their migration eastward mustrest on other grounds than history. That it was very much more remote inpast ages than that to Madagascar may be inferred from the incompletearticulations of the Polynesians, who, as the first outpourings, bore away onlythe first and earlier attempts of a primitive people to express their circum-scribed wants in language. When, or at what time, these wonderful people—the Barata—were themselves extruded and obliterated from their originalseat by the Thibetan and Arian incursions on Hindustan, we need not nowsurmise. We may only so far remark that the physiognomy of the modernMalagas! is more Thibetan than Arian. But, returning to the more immediate object of this paper, it may be trulysaid that there is no example of a tribe or nation accepting foreign words fortheir own primary ones. Take, for instance, o
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