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in the race history. Thilenius works it out painfully but coldly, with 

 every resource that may be drawn from the armamentarium of the 

 ocean physiographer. He neglects wholly the record of the only 

 folk who retain any recollection of this great ethnic movement, the 

 corpus of Polynesian tradition. This we shall summarily examine. 

 In the Rarotongan accounts of the voyages and discoveries of Ui- 

 te-rangioro we find the following list of new lands : 



These last we have no difficulty in comprehending as Savai'i, 

 'Upolu, Tutuila, Manu'a — Samoa, in fact, plainly named. A little 

 earlier in the list the four which bear specific names of Iti are quite 

 as clearly the Viti Archipelago. These two points establish the 

 direction of the voyaging, a direction which in the long remainder 

 of the list, after the mention of Samoa, covers the eastern Pacific. 

 It is not improper, then, to reason back in the same direction from 

 our two known points and assign to the unidentified places a 

 position somewhere between Viti and Indonesia. 



