Note 2 — Source and Migration of the Polynesian Race.

Another indication of the Polynesians leaving the Malay Archipelago after the establishment of a Hindu empire and Brahmanism in that archipelago, seems to me to be found in the name “Sawaii,” “Hawaii,” “Havaiki,” as it is differently called in different Polynesian dialects. The word Hawaiki, used by the New Zealanders, the Tongas, the Hervey, some of the Paumotu and, I think the Northern Marquesas, is undoubtedly the oldest form of the word, that form—with the dialectical difference of s and h—which the Polynesians brought with them from Malaysia. But Hawaiki is identical with Djawa-iki or Jawa-iki (little Java) the j or dj sound being convertible into h, as evidenced in the names of other places and words common to the Polynesian and Malay tongues. Previous to the establishment of the Hindus in Jawa, that island was called Nusa-Kindang,2 as reported in Javanese annals; after that establishment the name was changed to Nusa-Jawa. That event is by Javanese annals fixed at about 76 A.D. Those Hindus came from the country of Kling or Talinga on the west coast of India, and were probably of the Malay stirps, great-grand-nephews, so to say, of the long antecedent Polynesians. It was but natural that in their new habitats in the Pacific the latter should employ the nomenclature of their former homes, as we actually find it to have been the case in numerous instances.