428 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



[Translation.] 



Cease to rest within your house, my son : 



Come forth and traverse the plain of Whakaari.^) 



If asked your name, answer, 



" Rara o te Rangi " (rib of the sky), 



Let not the common man say, 



" It is useless against numbers." 



It is I who am reduced from high position by appearance of strength. 



Think thou of the Fathers, the last of them, 



Whakataupotiki, supporter of sky above. 



You will issue to the light, to the bright world. 



Hasten thy steps to summit of Taikoria.( : ) 



Glance undismayed and with gestures of challenge over Manawatu. 



There stood the Fathers on battle-field, now without men. 



Go steadfastly on into Horowhenua, 



The shades of your mothers beckoning you forward, the daughters of 



Waka, undegraded by blows. 

 Feather of Huia too mean for your person; 

 Your head-ornament a feather of Hokioi, the bird of mystery, unseen by 



the multitude. 

 Wrestle on sands outside of Waiwiri,( 3 ) and up to the Stream of Wai- 



kawa;( 3 ) 

 Climb steep Pukehou,( 4 ) look forth over Raukawa,^) 

 The sea struck by paddles of forefathers, stretching beyond sight to 



Hawaiki.( 6 ) 



Art. LIX. — Remarks on Dr. H. von Jhering's Paper "On 

 the Ancient Relations between Neiv Zealand and South 

 America." 



By Dr. Karl Mueller, of Halle, Germany. 



Translated from "Das Ausland," Stuttgart, 20th July, 1891, 

 by H. Suter, of Christchurck. Communicated by Pro- 

 fessor F. W. Hutton. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th May, 1892.] 



Dr. Von Jhering's remarks on the fauna of South America 

 apply to a large extent to the flora also, which agrees with 

 the Australian type in a most striking manner. Mosses are 

 known from Chili which can hardly be distinguished from 

 true Australian species. I was formerly of opinion that the 

 moss flora of Chili and Tierra del Fuego only was related to 

 that of Australia, but I have recently received mosses which 

 prove that this flora extends to Argentina, and even to the 

 Sierra Geral, in south Brazil. This fact evidently coincides 

 with another, long since known — viz., that the Sierra Geral, 



(!) to ( 6 ). See preceding page. 



