CHAPTER XVIII

A fantastic but dying language—The 364 Polynesian or Maori Tongue—Making of the first lexicons—Words taken from other languages—Decay of vocabularies with decrease of population—Humors and whimsicalities of the dictionary as arranged by foreigners

## CHAPTER XIX Tragic Mademoiselle Narbonne—Whom shall 384 she marry?—Dinner at the home of Wilhelm Lutz—The _Taua_, the sorcerer—Lemoal says Narbonne is a leper—I visit the _Taua_—The prophecy

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