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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 26 — Chapter VII

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In the Hawaiian dialect the ordinary Polynesian T is pronounced K, and the Tongan B is pronounced P. Hence the Tongan taboo becomes in Hawaiian kapoo (kapu). See E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, p. xxiii.

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