Blyth. — On ''The Whence of the Maori." 519 



" 3. He who through His power is the one Kinj: of the breathing and 

 awakening world ; He who governs all, man and beast : 



Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? 



" 4. He whose greatness these snowy mountains, whose greatness the 

 sea proclaims, with the distant rirer — He whose these regions are, as it were, 

 His two arms : 



Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ?" 



I add a second specimen from the Eev. E. Taylor's work, 

 " Te Ika a Maui,"—" The Spell of Tawaki, on his ascending to 

 Heaven" : — 



" Ascend, Tawaki, to the first heaven : 

 Let the fair sky consent ! 

 Ascend, Tawaki, to the second heaven : 



Let the fair sky consent ! 

 Ascend, Tawaki, to the third heaven : 



Let the fair sky consent ! 

 Ascend, Tawaki, to the fourth heaven : 

 Let the fair sky consent ! 



* » « * 



Ascend, Tawhaki, to the tenth heaven : 



Let the fair sky consent ! 

 Cling, cling, like the lizard, to the ceiling ; 

 Stick, stick close to the side of heaven." 



As I have duplicated the quotation from the Maori, I will 

 balance it by a second fr-om the " Chips," — " Hymn to Varuna" 

 (Eig Veda, vii., 89) :— 



" 1. Let me not yet, Varuna, enter into the house of clay : 

 Have mercy. Almighty, have mercy ! 



" 2. If I go along trembling, like a cloud driven by the wind : 

 Have mercy, Almighty, have mercy ! 



" 3. Through want of strength, thou strong and bright God, have I done 

 wrong : 

 Have mercy, Almighty, have mercy ! 



" 4. Thirst came upon the worshipper, though he stood in the midst of 

 the waters : 

 Have mercy. Almighty, have mercy ! 



" 5. Whenever we men , ! Varuna, commit an offence before the heavenly 

 host, whenever we break the law through thoughtlessness : 

 Punish us not, ! God, for that offence. 



These analogies, taken with the fact that the Maoris have 

 preserved the very names the Hindus gave such hymns and 

 invocations — viz., gathas, and mantras: gatha, a song, be- 

 coming n-aiata in Maori ; and mantra, a spell, becoming maatara, 

 seem to me to point to more than a mere coincidence. 



I now come to the more direct evidence. Mr. TurnbuU 

 Thomson, in his paper on " Barat, or Barata Fossil Words,"* 

 says : — 



" Barat is the Malay traditional and poetical name for Hindu- 

 stan, and to this day they speak of the a7igin Barat — that is, the 



* " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xi., p. 157. 



