Excerpt from The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced From an Examination of the Proto-Samoan Content of Efate and Other Languages of Melanesia T o introduce the work contained in the succeeding pages would be irksome; it partakes of the nature of a task, for the book must be its own best record of the results of years spent in study in the distant South Seas, of yet other years of intimate toil. But there is pleasure in making a brief and prefatory record of my introduction to these Polynesian researches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.