124 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



According to various lines of descent, it would appear that 

 the Polynesians have inhabited New Zealand for about nine 

 hundred years, calculating on the basis of twenty-five years to a 

 generation. 



I am of opinion that Maku was a voyager who did not remain 

 on these shores, or we should hear of his descendants,* and that 

 he visited New Zealand at a time when the offspring of Tiwaka- 

 waka had increased and multiplied to such an extent as to occupy 

 most of the North Island, if not the South also ; for traditions 

 preserved by the Ngatiawa Tribe assert that Maku found the land 

 occupied " from one end to the other." Ngatiawa say that 

 Maku came to this land of Aotearoa borne by a taniwha (water- 

 demon), which, I take it, is equivalent to the admission that they 

 do not know the name of his canoe. 



Te Papa-titi-raumaewa, the mother of Tiwakawaka, married 

 her father's brother, Maui-mua. This is probably the reason 

 why native tradition asserts that incest originated with Maui. 

 Another version has — 



Mauimua = Papa-tu-rangi 



Tiwakawaka = Haumia-nui. 



" Rangimatoru." 



The " Rangimatoru" canoe was another old-time vessel which 

 reached these shores before the coming of the " Arawa " and 

 sister-vessels, but at a time long subsequent to the arrival of 

 the " Aratauwhaiti." 



The " Rangimatoru " canoe came to land at Ohiwa. The 

 principal man on board is said to have been one Hape. or, to give 

 him his full name, Hape-ki-tu-manui-o-te-rangi. who is said 

 to have wandered down to the South Island, where he died, a 

 tradition which is supported by legendary evidence of the South 

 Island tribes. Te Hoka-o-te-rangi is also said to have come to 

 New Zealand on the "Rangimatoru." Some assert that this 

 vessel was really the " Kurahaupo " canoe which had been 

 abandoned by her crew as unseaworthv, and which was patched 

 up by others and brought to New Zealand. If the Hapu-oneone 

 Tribe of Te Waimana were descended from 'Rangimatoru" 

 migrants, then that canoe must have arrived long before the 

 ' Matatua," which latter vessel brought the original crew (or 

 a portion thereof) of "Kurahaupo " to Whangaparaoa ; for the 

 Hapu-oneone were assuredly an ancient people of the Bay of 

 Plenty district. If, however, the genealogies, given by many 



* " Ka hoki <i Main hi Hawaiki, tuna whakatauki tenei. Hokiake net 

 </ Maku, u> <ib t< tntnii 1,-i tt whare, Otitonuatuki Hawaiki teratipuna, kihai 

 i hoki mai." 



