Hawaiian Orii^in. 259 



When a chief dies, a number of his wives are kihed to keeji him company. 

 The Vitians do not change their names in sign of f riendsliip. hke the Polynesians. 

 On the Isle of Laguemba, the Tongans have settled and intermarried with the 

 \'itians. 



FIJI.' 



The name for north and northeast wind is tokalau. In Hawaiian, koolaii is the 

 n(irth and northeast side of an island. In Tahiti, tocraii is the west and southwest. 



Rev. Thos. Williams considers the Fiji group as the place of contact between the 

 two races which occupy east and west Polynesia, or, "The Asiatic and African, but 

 not Negro," as he designated them. "The lig'ht Mulatto skin and well-developed 

 muscles seen to windward are chiefly the result of long intercourse with the Tongan 

 race." "The Fijians have never acknowledged any power (foreign), but such as ex- 

 ists among themselves." 



"Rank is hereditary, descending through the female." 



"As in the Malayan, so in the Fijian, there exists an aristocratic dialect, which 

 is particularly observable in the windward districts." 



"Standing in the presence of a chief is not allowed. All who move about the 

 house in which he is, creep, or, if on their feet, advance bent as in an act of obeisance." 



In driaiking toasts and wishing, the expression often is for a " pnaka loloa," — a 

 long pig, — meaning a human body, to be eaten. 



The Fijians reverence certain stones as shrines of the gods. Ofl^erings of food 

 are sometimes made at these. (They resemble the /'o//fl/v'/( « /\a»f in Hawaii). 



In Fiii, "sika" means "to a])pear" and is used chiefly of supernatural beings. 

 (Does the Hawaiian liika m the name of Kane, "Hika-poloa," connect or find its 

 explanation in the former?) 



Fijian traditions mention mankind springing fmm two eggs laid by a small hawk 

 and hatched by Ndengei, their principal god. They refer to a flood from which eight 

 people were saved in a canoe. They also mention a big tower built for the purpose of 

 ascertaining if the moon was inhabited, but the foundations gave way and the work- 

 men were scattered all over Fiji. They refer to a woman of Yaro, named Kerukeru, 

 who was very good and whom the gods removed from this world alive on considera- 

 tion oi her high character. 



NEW ZEALAND.' 



The New Zealanders derive themselves from Hawaiki, cither the Samoan, Sa- 

 waii, or the Tongan, Habai. 



One tradition has it that they descend from two brothers : Maui-mua and Maui- 

 potiki; that the elder, Maui-mua, killed his younger brother and ate him, whence the cus- 

 tom of cannibalism among them. 



Another tradition says that Maui was driven from his native land, and, embark- 



'Material relating to the Fijians is from "Fiji and obtained largely from L'Univcrs Pittoresque, by G. L. 



I'ijians," bv Rev. Thos. Williams, New York, 1850. Domeny do Ricnzi, Paris, i8,?5, and Polynesian Mythol- 



'Iiiformation in regard to New Zealand traditions is ogV. '^y George Grey, London, 1855. 



