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enous, or came with the Polynesians. The New Zealanders called the condor hy the 

 Polynesian name of poultry, moa. They then retained and transferred the name, though 

 they did not succeed in bringing' hens with them when they emigrated to New Zealand. 



The legends about Maui, his adventures, his fishing up the earth from the water, 

 his getting fire, his fish-hook, Manaiakalani, are many and mostly coincide with the Ha- 

 waiian legends. ( See Grey's "Polynesian Mythology.") Those legends of Maui were 

 recognized and more or less known through all the Polynesian groups, and hence ]M-ob- 

 ably arrived with the first settlers. One of the New Zealand traditions has it that the 

 three Mauis concurred in the creation of man and, subsequently, of woman from him. 

 On Hawaii and on the Society group a similar legend, iinifatis in lit and is, obtained. 



There is also a legend of Lono (Rona), who fell in a well, caught in a tree, and 

 was taken up to the moon, where he is still visible. This resembles somewhat the Ha- 

 waiian legend of Lonomoku or Hinahanaiakamalama, the wife of Aikanaka and reputed 

 mother of Puna and Hema. 



The New Zealanders call foreigners by the name, /'a/er/n?. ( Any analogy to the 

 Hawaiian, ])akea, a kind of white stone?) 



The constellation known as Orion's belt was called by New Zealanders zvaka, the 

 canoe. 



The variation in legends indicate that the north and south islands of New Zea- 

 land received their inhabitants at dififerent times. 



TONGA ISLANDS. 



The Tonga Islands had places of refuge, sacred enclosures, where fugitives were 

 safe. The same in Hawaii. 



The Tongans have a tradition that they were descendants from Bolotu, an island 

 somewhere in the northwest, in this wise : Some of the inferior gods of Bolotu, to the 

 number of about two hundred men and women left to visit the new land of Tonga after 

 it had been ])ulled out of the water by the god Tangaloa. Having arrived, they con- 

 cluded to stoj:) and took their vessel to pieces. A few days afterwards some of them 

 died, and one, being inspired, told them that having eaten the fruits and breathed the 

 air of Tonga, they had lost their immortality, and that they were destined to people the 

 world, and that all that surrounded them would also be ])erishable — "iiica iiia-iiia." 

 They built a canoe to return to Bolotu, but they never succeeded in finding that land and 

 returned sorrowfully to Tonga. 



Another tradition reports that Tangaloa was fishing one day in the great ocean, ' 

 when his leaden hook caught into something and on pulling at it a number of rocks came 

 in sight, getting larger and larger, when the line broke and the Tonga Isles remained as 

 they are. A place at Hounga is still shown where the hook caught in the rocks. That 

 hook was still in the possession of the family of the Tui-Tonga some thirty years before 

 Mariner's time. The New Zealanders and Hawaiians have a similar tradition, but make 

 Maui the hero of the tale. 



Hogs were common in Tonga before its discovery. Dogs were scarce and 

 mostly brought from the Vitis. Poultry abounded. 



